Files and Directory linux commandline

# cd /home

enter to directory '/ home' [man]

# cd ..

go back one level [man]

# cd ../..

go back two levels [man]

# cd

go to home directory [man]

# cd ~user1

go to home directory [man]

# cd -

go to previous directory [man]

# cp file1 file2

copying a file [man]

# cp dir/* .

copy all files of a directory within the current work directory [man]

# cp -a /tmp/dir1 .

copy a directory within the current work directory [man]

# cp -a dir1 dir2

copy a directory [man]

# cp file file1

outputs the mime type of the file as text [man]

# iconv -l

lists known encodings [man]

# iconv -f fromEncoding -t toEncoding inputFile > outputFile

converting the coding of characters from one format to another [man]

# find . -maxdepth 1 -name *.jpg -print -exec convert

batch resize files in the current directory and send them to a thumbnails directory (requires convert from Imagemagick) [man]

# ln -s file1 lnk1

create a symbolic link to file or directory [man]

# ln file1 lnk1

create a physical link to file or directory [man]

# ls

view files of directory [man]

# ls -F

view files of directory [man]

# ls -l

show details of files and directory [man]

# ls -a

show hidden files [man]

# ls *[0-9]*

show files and directory containing numbers [man]

# lstree

show files and directories in a tree starting from root(2) [man]

# mkdir dir1

create a directory called 'dir1' [man]

# mkdir dir1 dir2

create two directories simultaneously [man]

# mkdir -p /tmp/dir1/dir2

create a directory tree [man]

# mv dir1 new_dir

rename / move a file or directory [man]

# pwd

show the path of work directory [man]

# rm -f file1

delete file called 'file1' [man]

# rm -rf dir1

remove a directory called 'dir1' and contents recursively [man]

# rm -rf dir1 dir2

remove two directories and their contents recursively [man]

# rmdir dir1

delete directory called 'dir1' [man]

# touch -t 0712250000 file1

modify timestamp of a file or directory - (YYMMDDhhmm) [man]

# tree

show files and directories in a tree starting from root(1) [man]