Home / ubuntu / Questions / 716599
Accepted
Juan
Asked: 2016-01-04 20:18:58 +0800 CST

How to create a new folder from a terminal with administrative permissions?

  • 772

I want to install JAVA, but the installation instructions ask me to create a new folder, called /java/, into the standard /usr/ folder.

But this folder is blocked. I mean, I can not to create a new folder on it, with the PCManFM file manager, because that option is grey.

So I guess there should be a command to create it from a Terminal session. (With sudo, maybe?)

How can I get it? Which is the right command to get it?

command-line

4 Answers

  1. Create the folder from a command line terminal using:

    sudo mkdir /usr/java

    You need sudo to make changes to /usr because /usr is owned by the root user.

    • 25
  2. Best Answer

    I'm going to address two parts of your question: java installation and folder creation.

    Java installation

    We already have a question about that: How can I install Sun/Oracle's proprietary Java JDK 6/7/8 or JRE?.All of the necessary commands are there, and I strongly suggest you read their manual pages with man COMMAND in terminal.

    There's also open-source version of Java, Open JDK. Installation of that is somewhat simpler

    sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jdk icedtea-7-plugin

    That's pretty much it - apt-get will take care of everything. When you install some package with apt-get or dpkg there should be preinstall and postinstall scripts that come along with the package, and run automatically to set up whatever program you're getting.

    Folder Creation

    Folder ( in linux terminology - directory ) creation, just like file creation, depends on the permissions. If a folder has the following permissions,

    drwxr-xr-x 15 testuser  testuser   4096 Nov 22 12:34 testuser/

    that means the owner of that folder testuser can read-write-execute stuff there (first rwx), and group testuser can only read and execute stuff there - that's the r-x part, and final r-x part means read execute for any other groups or users.

    /usr folder is owned by root user, so only root can write there, that means create files or folder. Hence for that you need sudo to gain root privileges temporarily.

    • 8

  3. You have a few choices:

    • gksudo pcmanfm will request you enter your password, then open PCManFM as root, which is somewhat dangerous because if you are not careful you may unintentionally modify system files.

    • sudo mkdir /usr/java will create the directory directly.

    • 3 
  4. Creates folders and files

mkdir -p ~/example(Folder)/text(Folder)
touch ~/example(folders)/text(Folder)/text{1..420}.txt
chmod -R 757 ~/example (folder with rights)


Move the text to another created folder

mkdir -p /Sturrage/V1Tst/Memes
mv ~/example/text/text{1..125}.txt /Sturrage/V1Tst/Memes


Same thing but with another folder to put all the text files that are left behind and with rights and user.

mkdir -p /V1Tst/Trash
cp ~/example/text/* /V1Tst/Trash
chmod -R 727 /V1Tst
chown -R user:group /V1Tst
    • 1