Tinkering with Perl

mkdir

mkdir is the command to make a directory. We will probably be making files as we tinker; let's create a directory for those files.

First, go to your home directory:

cd

Then make a directory -- say, one called tinkering.

mkdir tinkering

Now, we should go into that directory before doing most of the other things suggested in this book. So go into that directory:

cd tinkering

Remember to go to that directory before each time you start reading this book. If you're not sure what directory you're in, you can always type

pwd

to find out what directory you're in. From any place in the system, you can type in the following to go to your tinkering directory:

cd
cd tinkering

Now we're ready to talk about files and editors.

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