Class 4 Quiz

Question 1

Name the three whitespace characters.

Answer 1

Space, Tab and newline (Enter or Return)

Question 2

If you wanted to use one of the characters that have special meaning to Unix in a filename, what two things could you do?

Answer 2

put a backslash in front of it or quote it

Question 3

What would you type on the command line if you wanted to go to the directory /courses.

Answer 3

cd /courses

Question 4

What would you type at the command line to see what directory you are currently in?

Answer 4

pwd

Question 5

What would you type at the command line to see all the files in the directory named /home/ghoffman?

Answer 5

ls -a /home/ghoffman

Question 6

What would you type at the command line to print to the screen the contents of the file named memo.txt?

Answer 6

cat memo.txt

Question 7

What would you type at the command line to delete the file named memo.txt?

Answer 7

rm memo.txt

Question 8

What would you type at the command line to create a directory named work?

Answer 8

mkdir work

Question 9

What would you type at the command line to copy the file named memo.txt to memo.bak?

Answer 9

cp memo.txt memo.bak

Question 10

What would you type at the command line to move the file named memo.txt into the directory named work?

Answer 10

mv memo.txt work