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

John Crillo
John Crillo
8,293 Points
Posted by John Crillo
John Crillo
8,293 Points

Console Foundations

I removed to many things from the console. Is there any way to get it back to default so i have the original files back?

4 Answers

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Hi John,

If you mean removed with the rm command just re-create them.

You can use the touch command "touch someFile.php" or use redirection "> someFile.php". Either of these will create an empty file.

Jeff

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Or you can create a file with a text editor such as nano: "nano someFile.php". If you use this method, for fun, I'll let you figure out how to exit the program. Better yet, replace nano with vim.

John Crillo
John Crillo
8,293 Points
John Crillo
John Crillo
8,293 Points

i tried exiting out and logging back in but to no avail. I'm wondering if there is a way to permanently delete then re-download it. I no longer have the hello.txt file pr the how_to etc.. file.

John Crillo
John Crillo
8,293 Points
John Crillo
John Crillo
8,293 Points

Thank you Jeff... I recreated the file, just have to live with the fact the data inside the file is gone which isn't a huge deal.

Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

Hello John,

I'm doing Console Foundations at the moment and as far as I'm aware any changes you make to the environment gets reset whenever you log back in, so you shouldn't cause too much long term damage to your terminal. :)