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→Part 2: Viewing Directory Contents / Copying & Moving Directories
<table align="right"><tr valign="top"><td>[[Image:directory-structure-5.png|thumb|right|250px|Output of the '''tree''' command to display directory structure.]]</td><td>[[Image:directory-structure-6.png|thumb|right|250px|Output of the '''ls -lR''' command to display directory structure.]]</td></table>
# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">tree</span><br><br>'''NOTE:''' You should see the directory structure that you created in the previous section. You can also issue the tree command using a directory pathname to display the directory structure for a specific scope.<br><br>You can also use the -R option for the ls command to display all directories and subdirectories for a specified directory path (referred to as a "recursive directory listing").<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ls -lR</span><br><br>What directories do you see?<br><br># Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ls -lR uli101</span><br><br>Note the differences between both of these commands.<br><br>You can copy and move entire directories (and their contents) to other directories.<br><br><table align="right"><tr valign="top"><td>[[Image:directory-structure-7.png|thumb|right|250px|Output of the '''tree''' command to confirm copy of '''uli101''' directory (and contents) to the '''xyz''' directory.]]</td><td>[[Image:directory-structure-8.png|thumb|right|250px|Output of the '''tree''' command to confirm movement of '''apc100 directory''' directory (and contents) to the '''xyz''' diredtory.]]</td></tr></table># Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">ls -lR uli101</span><br><br>Note the differences between both of these commands.<br><br>You can copy and move entire directories (and their contents) to other directories.<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">cp uli101 xyz100</span><br><br>Note the differences between both of these commands.<br><br>
#Issue the following Linux command to display the directory structure of your home directory to confirm you copied the uli101 directory:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">tree</span><br><br>