Command Lines

Question 1

Home Directory

Answer 1

~

Question 2

present working directory

Answer 2

pwd

Question 3

shows the physical pathway

Answer 3

-P

Question 4

see files in current directory

Answer 4

ls

Question 5

see both “visible” and “hidden” files and directories.

Answer 5

-a

Question 6

flag that will list out the names of the files and directories as well as give more detailed information about them.

Answer 6

-l

Question 7

shows file size

Answer 7

-h

Question 8

sorts by file size

Answer 8

-S

Question 9

Sorting by Last Modified Time

Answer 9

-t

Question 10

reverse sort

Answer 10

-r

Question 11

create a link between two files

Answer 11

ln

Question 12

If the source file already exists when linking files you will get an error, how do you fix the error and force link the files

Answer 12

-f

Question 13

link a directory

Answer 13

-s

Question 14

change directory

Answer 14

cd

Question 15

Once inside of a directory, it can be useful to be able to navigate back up a directory. One way to do this would be to call cd giving it the full path to the directory you want to go. Another way to accomplish the task of moving up to the parent directory is to use the special path

Answer 15

. .

Question 16

how to create a directory

Answer 16

mkdir directory name

Question 17

make a nested directory

Answer 17

-p

Question 18

How to copy a single file

Answer 18

To copy a single file we can call the cp command with two arguments. The first argument is the file we want to copy, the source file. The second argument, or target, is the location we want to copy the source file t

Question 19

when you copy multiple files, the last argument must be a

Answer 19

directory

Question 20

what does verbose output do and how do you enter it

Answer 20

-v; it shows you the steps taken to complete a command

Question 21

how do you copy a directory?

Answer 21

-R

Question 22

how do you force overwrite

Answer 22

-f

Question 23

how do you confirm overwrite?

Answer 23

-i

Question 24

how do you delete a file?

Answer 24

-rm

Question 25

what does mv do

Answer 25

copy and remove

Question 26

what does | mean

Answer 26

and then

Question 27

what does > show you

Answer 27

things that follow the >