Mini-Terminal

virtual hierarchical folder and file system that supports actions as listed below

the terminal allows user to create, edit add and remove files and folders in a virtual hierarchical space. the files are the only object actually created and are held in the folder where the program is ran.

supported actions:

• read <file-name> <position>returns character at given position
• write <file-name> <position> <character> writes character to given position
• touch <file-name> creates file
• copy <source-file-name> <target-file-name> copies file
• remove <file-name> removes file
• move <source-file-name> <target-file-name> moves file from source to target
• cat <file-name> prints file content to standard output stream
• wc <file-name> prints word, character and line count in file to standard output stream
• ln <target-file-name> <link-name> hard links given file to new name
• mkdir <folder-name> create directory
• rmdir <folder-name> remove directory
• ls <folder-name> list folders and files in folder
• lproot show all folders and files hierarchical build
• pwd prints folders path from home directory to standard output stream
• --help prints command options to standard output stream
• exit exits program

example

 Type --help to view commands
 omerfr@miniterminal:~/V$ touch foo.dat
 omerfr@miniterminal:~/V$ write foo.dat 0 a                        
 omerfr@miniterminal:~/V$ read foo.dat 0               
 a
 omerfr@miniterminal:~/V$ copy foo.dat bar.txt
 omerfr@miniterminal:~/V$ ls .
 foo.dat
 bar.txt
 omerfr@miniterminal:~/V$ remove foo.dat      
 omerfr@miniterminal:~/V$ ls .
 bar.txt
 omerfr@miniterminal:~/V$ mkdir MyFolder
 omerfr@miniterminal:~/V$ move bar.txt MyFolder
 omerfr@miniterminal:~/V$ chdir MyFolder
 omerfr@miniterminal:~/V/MyFolder$ pwd
 V/MyFolder/
 omerfr@miniterminal:~/V/MyFolder$ exit