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Red Hat Certified System Administrator EX200 (RHEL 10) · Domain 1: Understand and use essential tools

Creating, deleting, copying and moving files and directories (mkdir -p, cp -a, mv, rm -r)

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

Managing files is the everyday base of administration. The commands are short, but their options decide whether a task succeeds, whether metadata survives and whether you accidentally destroy data. Linux has no recycle bin at the command line: what rm removes is gone.

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