Figure 15-11 Results of running TYPE without using quotation marks in Software

Creation Quick Response Code in Software Figure 15-11 Results of running TYPE without using quotation marks

(with spaces) as the lename To make this le easier to work with in the command line, you ll use the REN (Rename) command to change the lename d Type the following command:

Now con rm that this has worked by typing the following command:

Great! Now you will be able to type the lename more quickly as you complete the rest of the exercise Step 2 At the command prompt, type CD \ to change your focus to the root directory

You ll now create a new directory called STUDY in the root so that you can do some copying and moving The only difference between copying and moving is that COPY leaves the original le in the same place (as a backup) with a duplicate made elsewhere, whereas the MOVE command relocates the original le to a new location with no backup available They re otherwise similar, so once you ve learned the COPY command, you ve pretty much learned the MOVE command too! Follow these steps: a b Make a directory named STUDY by typing the following:

Now follow these steps for copying your le named CMDLNTSTTXT to the new STUDY directory: c d Change the focus of the command prompt to the STUDY directory:

Copy the CMDLNTSTTXT le to the STUDY directory:

Here, COPY is the command, C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\%USERNAME%\MY DOCUMENTS\ CMDLNTSTTXT is the current location and name of the le (notice the use of the quotation marks and the %USERNAME% variable once again), and C:\STUDY\CMDLNTSTTXT is the target location and name of the le The entire command and response will look similar to Figure 15-12

Run the DIR command to see if you copied the le If the le isn t there, carefully repeat the previous steps or ask your instructor for help Change your directory focus back to the My Documents folder (CD \DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\%USERNAME%\MY DOCUMENTS) and run the DIR command to see if the original CMDLNTSTTXT le is still there

If you re already in the target directory, you don t need to include the target path in the command My idea of copying or moving les is to start in the directory to which you want to copy the les Then you can bring the les to where you are Each time you copy or move a le, you can run the DIR command to see if it s actually there The other way of sending a le to a directory can be troublesome if you re moving les, because you may accidentally send them to a wrong directory and waste time looking for them

Another good use of the COPY command is to make a backup copy of a le and rename it at the same time, so that the two les can reside in the same directory g To make a backup of the CMDLNTSTTXT text le, type the following command:

You now have three copies of the same le; you will clean these up in the last step Step 3 The last two commands you will work with in this step are the MOVE and DEL (Delete) commands First, you will delete the copy of CMDLNTSTTXT that you copied into the STUDY folder in the last step You will then move the le permanently from the My Documents folder to the STUDY folder Follow these steps: a b c Change the focus of the command prompt to the STUDY directory:

Delete the CMDLNTSTTXT le from the STUDY directory:

Now you will follow the steps to move the le from My Documents to the STUDY folder You will then verify that the le is in the STUDY folder and no longer in the My Documents folder d e Make sure the focus of the command prompt is still the STUDY directory Move the CMDLNTSTTXT le to the STUDY directory: