https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-10T22:56:16+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2016-05-20T15:48:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_five?rev=1463759337&do=diff Linux Tutorial Five 5.1 File system security (access rights) In your testdir directory, type compsci-user@tim:~$ ls -l (l for long listing!) You will see that you now get lots of details about the contents of your directory, similar to the example below. text/html 2016-05-20T15:47:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_one?rev=1463759279&do=diff Linux Tutorial 1.1 Listing files and directories ls (list) When you first login, your current working directory is your home directory. Your home directory has the same name as your user-name, for example, compsci-user, and it is where your personal files and subdirectories are saved. text/html 2016-05-20T15:48:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_four?rev=1463759331&do=diff Linux Tutorial Four 4.1 Wildcards The characters * and ? The character * is called a wildcard, and will match against none or more character(s) in a file (or directory) name. For example, in your unixstuff directory, type compsci-user@tim:~$ ls list* text/html 2016-05-20T15:48:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_two?rev=1463759315&do=diff Linux Tutorial Two 2.1 Copying Files cp (copy) cp file1 file2 is the command which makes a copy of file1 in the current working directory and calls it file2 What we are going to do now, is to take a file stored in an open access area of the file system, and use the