Basics

Question 1

What is a command prompt know as, what kind of program?

Answer 1

shell program

Question 2

What shell do we use?

Answer 2

BASH shell, Bourne Again Shell Bash

Question 3

What does the command Echo do?

Answer 3

Echo echos back what ever arguments you use

Question 4

What does the command uname do? And what do the options -r and -p used for?

Answer 4

tells me what system im running
Options
-r running kernal version
-p what processors is being used

Question 5

What does the command ls do? What is the option -l used for?

Answer 5

ls is the files listing. -l is used to display the long listing of the files

Question 6

What does the command ps do? What are the options -a and -x used for?

Answer 6

ps displays processes, -a is for all process, and -x is for listing process that dont have a terminal

Question 7

What does the command man do?

Answer 7

man command is used in conjunction with a another command ( man ls) to get the manual of a given command.

Question 8

What does the command whoami do?

Answer 8

Tells you what user are you

Question 9

What does the command su do?

Answer 9

switch user, by it self it switches you to the root user

Question 10

propper structure for a full command

Answer 10

Command - options - argument

Question 11

What is an argument

Answer 11

an argument is the item that is going to receive the action from the command

Question 12

What is an option

Answer 12

Option changes slightly how the command works, starts with a dash -

Question 13

What is the history command used for?

Answer 13

the history command brings up all of the commands we have used