Selecting, Copying, Moving and Deleting Files and Directories

Abstract

This chapter is about doing what one might call secretarial or administrative things with files and directories as entities. In other words, think of a file in conventional terms, that is as a bundle of papers, which you can choose from the filing cabinet, move around, throw away and even copy without actually referring to the contents of that file. Just as you can do these things with a real file of papers, so you can do them, rather more easily and certainly with less effort, with files and directories on your computer. Copying the complete contents of a directory can be achieved with a few clicks of the mouse button.