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

When you type ls, files beginning with a dot are not listed.

To see dot files, you must use the -a option to ls.

Look in the right-hand column for the man ls and man mv commands.

Suspends the man ls job; you should see its job information.

You might type ls to verify that your new directory exists.

Now type ls -l and notice that secondlink is still there.

Say you always use the -almost-all and -color=auto options to ls.

The -l option to ls requests all that additional information.

Enter the command ls -l to confirm that permissions on secondlink were also changed.

If you're curious, cd to each directory and type ls to see its contents.

Use ls to verify that that's where myprofile is now.

You can see which ls the shell is going to use with the type command.

As you can see, the ls program is not meant to be read by humans.

You quickly get tired of typing ls -almost-all -color=auto.

Use ls -l to confirm that the file has been created and notice the permissions mode: