directory into, or it can be a new filename. cp works the same way.

As usual, you can type ls to see the result of mv.

mv myprofile ..
Just as . means ``the directory I'm in now,'' .. means ``parent of the
current directory,'' in this case the practice directory you created
earlier. Use ls to verify that that's where myprofile is now.

cd ..
Changes directories to the parent directory - in this case practice, where
you just put myprofile.

rm myprofile
rm means ``remove,'' so this deletes myprofile. Be careful! Deleting a
file on a GNU/Linux system is permanent - there is no undelete. If you rm
it, it's gone, forever. Be careful! To repeat, deleting a file on a
GNU/Linux system is permanent - there is no undelete. If you rm it, it's
gone, forever.

rmdir mysubdirectory
rmdir is just like rm, only it's for directories. Notice that rmdir only
works on empty directories. If the directory contains files, you must
delete those files first, or alternatively you can use rm -r in place of
rmdir.

cd ..
This moves out of the current directory, and into its parent directory.
Now you can type the following: