Command Line

Question 1

What is a CLI?

Answer 1

Command Line Interface

Question 2

What is a GUI?

Answer 2

Graphical User Interface

Question 3

What are the three virtues of a great programmer?

Answer 3

Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris

Question 4

In a CLI, what is one use of man?

Answer 4

man is the manual command and can be used to access on-board documentation

Question 5

In a CLI, what is one use of cat?

Answer 5

cat is the concatenate command and can be used to print the contents of a file or concatenate the contents of multiple files together

Question 6

In a CLI, what is one use of ls?

Answer 6

ls is the list command and can be used to list out the files in the current directory

Question 7

In a CLI, what is one use of pwd?

Answer 7

pwd is the print working directory command and returns the full path for the directory we are working in.

Question 8

In a CLI, what is one use of echo?

Answer 8

echo is similar to print and console.log but not the same and can be used to echo an input string (ex: into a text file)

Question 9

In a CLI, what is one use of touch?

Answer 9

touch is a command that can be used to create new files inside directories.

Question 10

In a CLI, what is one use of mkdir?

Answer 10

mkdir is the ‘make directory’ command and can be used to make new directories

Question 11

In a CLI, what is one use of mv?

Answer 11

mv is the move command and can be used to move (rename) files

Question 12

In a CLI, what is one use of rm?

Answer 12

rm is the remove command and can be used to delete files

Question 13

In a CLI, what is one use of cp?

Answer 13

cp is the copy command and can be used to copy files

Question 14

In a CLI, what is one use of history?

Answer 14

history is the history command and can be used to print command history.