Creating Files And Directories; A Larger Picture Of The Filesystem - Red Hat LINUX 7.2 Manual

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To open a new Konquerer window, just click on the KDE icon (which looks like a gear) on the far
right of the navigation bar.
Drag and Drop to Open, Move, and Copy
Keeping important documents and applications within easy reach is simple with Konquerer. To open
a text file, for example, you can drag it from the content area of Konquerer by left-clicking on it and
holding your mouse button down while you drag it. If you drop the file in an open text editor, it will
open, ready for you to modify its contents.
In the same way, you can drag and drop files from the content area to your desktop or to other folders.
When you reach your destination, a pop-up menu will offer you the choice of copying, moving or
linking the file. If you select
will be reflected in the original location. A link is like a shortcut to the original file.

11.3 Creating Files and Directories

To create an empty file, move to your login directory and use the touch command at the shell prompt.
To try it, type:
touch foo.bar
Now, in your login directory, you have got an empty file called foo.bar.
Let's also create a new directory, using the mkdir command.
Move to your login directory and type:
mkdir tigger
Now, you have created a directory called tigger in your login directory. Your new directory's abso-
lute pathname is /home/ yourlogin /tigger, and your home directory is the parent of tigger.

11.4 A Larger Picture of the Filesystem

Every operating system has a method of storing its files and directories so that it can keep track of
additions, modifications, and other changes.
In Linux, every file is stored on the system with a unique name, in directories which can also hold
other files and directories (or subdirectories).
You might think of the system as a tree-like structure, in which directories "branch off." Those direc-
tories may contain, or be the "parent" of, other directories which may hold files or directories of their
own.
Chapter 11:Managing Files and Directories
Link from the menu, any changes you make to a file in its new location