The Linux Command Line by William Shotts (Source: LinuxCommand.org): Chapter 2 (Navigation) for cd usage; Chapter 3 (Exploring the System) for ls -l and ls -t; Chapter 4 (Manipulating Files and Directories) for cp, mv, mkdir, and touch.
GNU Coreutils Manual: Section 7.1 (Directory listing) for ls options; Section 10.2 (Copying) for cp -r recursive behavior; Section 11.1 (Moving) for mv.
IEEE Std 1003.1 (POSIX.1-2017) - Shell & Utilities: Volume 4, Section 4 (Utilities) defines standard behavior for export and filesystem commands.
MIT Missing Semester of Your CS Education: Lecture 1 (The Shell) covers directory navigation, file manipulation, and flags for ls and cp.
Bash Reference Manual (GNU.org): Section 3.7.3 (Command Execution Environment) for the export builtin function and environment variable creation.