Chapter 15 - Working with the Command-Line Interface

Question 1

CLI stands for what?

Answer 1

Command-Line Interface(CLI). Very old but are kept up to date. a specific CLI is called a shell. Most OSes provide multiple shell options. All shells have a prompt to type in commands.

Question 2

Linux Command is called what?

Answer 2

a Bash Shell. Have to use the “sudo” command to run command as an admin.

Question 3

“dir’ command

Answer 3

shows dates and times of files and shows the folder that they are in.

Question 4

What is a switch in the command prompt

Answer 4

The Switch is the end part added to the command line.

Question 5

/? switch

Answer 5

this switch is very important followed by help and the command line you want to know about.

Question 6

“LS” command

Answer 6

is the “dir(display)” command in Linux.

Question 7

“man” command in Linux

Answer 7

is the /? switch just in Linux

Question 8

“cd" command

Answer 8

The Change Directory(cd). Is a command in all operating systems to move the prompt to different folders/directories.

Question 9

“cd ..” command

Answer 9

takes you into the next folder/directory upstream

Question 10

“cd (name of folder)” command

Answer 10

To go to the next folder downstream.

Question 11

“pwd” command in Linux

Answer 11

Just tells you want directory that your currently in.

Question 12

“md” command

Answer 12

Make Directory(md). Allows you to make a folder in command prompt.

Question 13

Windows vs. Linux command

Answer 13

Windows doesn’t care about Capital letters and uses (). Linux uses (/) and does care about Capital letters.

Question 14

“rd” command

Answer 14

Remove Directory(rd). Allows you to remove/delete empty directories. You can’t delete directories using “rd” in windows. To delete directories, use the “rd /s” command.

Question 15

“mkdir” command in Linux

Answer 15

Is the “md(make directory)” command just in Linux.

Question 16

“rmdir” command in Linux

Answer 16

is the “rd” command just in Linux.

Question 17

“del” command

Answer 17

Delete(del) command prompt to delete files in command prompt.

Question 18

*. (file type)

Answer 18

Use *. followed by a file type named can be used with multiple commands to perform actions on a certain file type.

Question 19

.

Answer 19

Use . can be used with multiple commands to perform actions on a entire folder.

Question 20

copy

Answer 20

1. Get to the directory with the files you want to copy. 2. Type copy followed by a space. 3. Type name of the file you want to copy followed by a space. 4. Type the path of where you want the file to go. 5. hit enter. copy fred.txt k:

Question 21

move

Answer 21

same steps just moving the file not actually making a copy.

Question 22

Standard vs. Admin command prompt

Answer 22

Commands available with standard privileges vs. admin privileges.

Question 23

/FS:filesystem

Answer 23

Specifies the type of the file system (FAT, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, UDF, ReFS).

Question 24

/FS:NTFS

Answer 24

Formats a hard drive to NTFS

Question 25

/Q

Answer 25

Performs a quick format. Note that this switch overrides /P.

Question 26

chkdsk command

Answer 26

Scanning a hard drive for errors from the command prompt.

Question 27

SFC stands for what?

Answer 27

System File Checker(SFC). Repairs critical Windows files based on the system store

Question 28

DSIM stands for what?

Answer 28

Deployment Image Servicing & Management(DISM). Repairs critical Windows files based on online system stores.

Question 29

Diskpart

Answer 29

Allows you to partition hard drives from the command prompt.

Question 30

xcopy

Answer 30

Is the original Windows tool to copy entire directory trees, including any files in the tree

Question 31

Robocopy

Answer 31

Is an improved version of xcopy, it's faster and safer.

Question 32

"dd" Linux command

Answer 32

Is the xcopy/robocopy command in Linux

Question 33

Shutdown command

Answer 33

Shuts down your system. Can be paired with the switches /s and /r which are complete shutdown(/s) and shutdown and restart(/r)

Question 34

Tasklist/Taskkill

Answer 34

Tasklist will list all the processes running on your system. Taskkill will let us shut down any of the processes running on your system.

Question 35

"cls" command

Answer 35

clears the command prompt.

Question 36

gpupdate/gpresult

Answer 36

Gpupdate forces policy updates. And Gpresult lists the resultant policy.

Question 37

apt-get

Answer 37

Gives users access to the Debian repository on Linux

Question 38

apt-get update

Answer 38

Updating the program repository on Linux.

Question 39

apt-get upgrade

Answer 39

Upgrades/updates programs/applications on Linux

Question 40

apt-get remove

Answer 40

Removes programs/applications on Linux

Question 41

ps

Answer 41

the command in Linux that gives you control over processes.

Question 42

ps aux

Answer 42

shows all processes running on the system regardless of user on Linux.

Question 43

grep

Answer 43

only works with test files.

Question 44

Kill

Answer 44

kills or ends a process on Linux

Question 45

VI text editor

Answer 45

Very old text editor.

Question 46

icacls

Answer 46

Windows command that enables changing NTFS permissions from the command line

Question 47

chmod

Answer 47

Linux command that enables changing Linux Permissions

Question 48

chown

Answer 48

Linux command that enables root users to take control of any Linux folder or file.

Question 49

Batch file

Answer 49

A text file that stores a list of commands. That uses the extension ".bat".

Question 50

Environment Variables

Answer 50

Are phrases that point to system-wide functions

Question 51

Windows Powershell

Answer 51

Can provide more powerful scripts than command prompt.

Question 52

Extension for Powershell is what?

Answer 52

.ps1

Question 53

ISE stands for what?

Answer 53

Integrated Scripting Environment.

Question 54

Linux Bash Shell

Answer 54

Bash shell scripts in Linux can also provide powerful scripting functions.

Question 55

".exe" files are what?

Answer 55

Compiled code.

Question 56

Visual Basic - ".vbs"

Answer 56

Been around a long time.

Question 57

Variables

Answer 57

Are values that can change depending on how we define them.

Question 58

Integers and Strings

Answer 58

Integers are numbers in code and Strings are text in code.

Question 59

Comment syntax

Answer 59

Are just notes in code that don't execute.

Question 60

Python code - ".py"

Answer 60

Very popular coding language, easy to read. And be ran on all OS's.

Question 61

JavaScript code - ".js"

Answer 61

Another popular coding/programming language, Heavily used for web pages and animation.

Question 62

Client-side Application

Answer 62

The code from the server to show you a web page.