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recipes: Add a section on deleting a file and other common file operations.

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@@ -68,6 +68,24 @@ images. The useful guide below explains the options available.
L<https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/new-guestfish-n-options-in-1-5-9/#content>
=head1 Delete a file (or other simple file operations)
Use guestfish. To delete a file:
guestfish -a disk.img -i rm /file/to/delete
To touch a file (bring it up to date or create it):
guestfish -a disk.img -i touch /file/to/touch
To stat a file. Since this is a read-only operation, we can make it
safer by adding the I<--ro> flag.
guestfish --ro -a disk.img -i stat /file/to/stat
There are dozens of these commands. See L<guestfish(1)> or the output
of C<guestfish -h>
=head1 Dump raw filesystem content from inside a disk image or VM
You can use the L<guestfish(1)> C<download> command to extract the raw