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I need to make a new dir in side the dir lab5 the new dir is called testLab5

without changing directories copy all files from your lab5 directory into your testLab5 directory

then i have to

without chaning directories and using exactly one command remove all files that start with the letter l from the directroy testLab5

Any help is wanted and thanks alot!

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