Activity 10 - Let's move and replace

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Great, now that the hackers' malicious file won't cause us any more headaches, let's restore the old file so things will run smoothly again.

How to fix the secret-message

The command mv can also be used to replace the destination file with the source file.
The format is: mv [source filename] [destination name].

Replace the messed up secret message with the backup that we found earlier.
Let’s move the file into the new directory that we made.

mv command


Backup your files

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That backup file earlier came in handy to fix the tampered file. Let's backup the files in our directory.

cp is a command that copies a file from one location to another.
The format is: cp [source filename] [destination filename].

Make a copy of the file you made and the secret-message.txt.

cp command