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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Moving and Deleting Files

Amy McKnight
Amy McKnight
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Posted by Amy McKnight
Amy McKnight
10,124 Points

I lost the hello.txt file how would I find it?

Was learning about the mv command in terminal and some how I have lost the txt file hello.txt. I think I had renamed it hi.txt but now I cant find that either.

have relaunched the console in hope that would reset the terminal but no luck

Any help would be appreciated trying to follow along but can't as my files are all messed up.

Thanks

2 Answers

Chris Shearon
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Chris Shearon
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Chris Shearon
Chris Shearon
Courses Plus Student 17,330 Points

If you know you gave it a .txt extension you can try running this to search your home directory for files ending in .txt

find ~ -type f -name "*.txt"
Aaron HARPT
Aaron HARPT
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Aaron HARPT
Aaron HARPT
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You could run the ls command, which will show all the files in your directory.

Amy McKnight
Amy McKnight
10,124 Points
Amy McKnight
Amy McKnight
10,124 Points

I tried that in all the directories it is like the file has disapeared. Not sure how I deleted it or where it went.