RHCSA Lab 1.4 — File Management

Simulated environment — commands affect the virtual filesystem only.

📋 Lab Info

Lab Objective

Master essential file management commands: listing with ls, creating with touch, copying with cp, moving and renaming with mv, deleting with rm, and searching with find.

Time Estimate: 15–20 minutes

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Requirements

☐Use ls -l and ls -a

☐Use touch and cp to create and copy files

☐Use mv to move and rename files

☐Use rm to remove files and directories

☐Use find to search for files

🎉 Lab Complete!

All file management requirements met.

📝 Steps

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0IntroductionCompleted

Welcome to Lab 1.4. The filesystem is simulated — commands actually affect the virtual environment. Use 💡 Explain to understand each command.

1Listing FilesCurrent Step

List files in long format and show hidden files.

Run both:

ls -l

ls -a

2Create & CopyPending

Create a new file and copy it.

Run all three:

touch newfile.txt

cp newfile.txt copied_file.txt

cp -r documents documents_backup

3Move & RenamePending

Move a file into a directory, then rename it inside that directory.

Run both:

mv copied_file.txt documents/

mv documents/copied_file.txt documents/renamed_file.txt

4Remove FilesPending

Delete a file and a directory recursively.

Run both:

rm file1.txt

rm -r documents_backup

5Find FilesPending

Search for files by pattern and type.

Run both:

find . -name "*.txt"

find /etc -type f -name "*.conf"

💡 Explain

RHCSA Lab 1.4 — File Management ───────────────────────────────── 📝 Steps — what to do | 💡 Explain — why it works | 📋 Lab Info — your progress Virtual filesystem — commands affect the simulated environment. Tab completes.

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