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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

You're reading from  Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463852
Pages 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Kick-Start Your Raspberry Pi Zero Setting Up Physical and Wireless Connections Programming with Linux Programming with Python Getting Your Hands Dirty Using the GPIO Header Controlling the LEDs and Displays Controlling the Hardware Taking Digital Inputs to the Raspberry Pi Zero Interfacing Sensors with the Raspberry Pi Zero Cooking up Projects to Amaze the World!

Renaming and copying/moving the file/folder into a new directory


A common activity on any filesystem is the practice of copying and moving files, and even directories, from one place to another. You might do it to make a backup copy of something, or you might decide that the contents should live in a more appropriate location. This recipe will explore how to manipulate files in the Raspbian system.

Getting ready

If you are still in your terminal from the last recipe, we are going to use the same files from the previous recipe. We should have the ownership back to pi:pi; if not, run the following:


sudo chown pi:pi /home/pi/share/*.txt

Note

If you are in a directory and want to operate on a file, you can reference just the file or use "./" to indicate the current directory. In this recipe, we will refer to the full path that we want to operate on. If you are already in the /home/pi directory (also designated by "~/" you can alternatively run this command without the path, as in: sudo chown...

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