Linux 3

Question 1

cURL lets us _______ from the command line.

Answer 1

query a URL

Question 2

What is the simplest thing to do with cURL?

Answer 2

Make an HTTP request to a given server and print its response out to the console.

Question 3

What flag can you use to provide more information about server response?

Answer 3

curl -i

Question 4

What flag can you use to follow a redirect?

Answer 4

-L

Question 5

What flag can we use to download a file from a URL using cURL?

Answer 5

curl -O

Question 6

How can we give a downloaded file a custom name using the curl command?

Answer 6

curl -o desired_name

Question 7

What flag can you use to change the kind of request you are sending with the curl command?

Answer 7

-X

Question 8

What is the usage format of the find command?

Answer 8

Find

Question 9

What option do we use with find to search for the name of a file?

Answer 9

-name
e.g.: find . -name james.txt
(find, in the current parth, a file named james.txt

Question 10

What option makes the find command search for a pattern within a path?

Answer 10

-path

Question 11

What is the use of the type flag within the find command?

Answer 11

-type f and -type d flags tell the command to search for files or directorys, respectively.

Question 12

How would we search for files whose path name contains session and whose file name contains mem?

Answer 12

find . -path *session* -type f -name *mem*

Question 13

What kind of query is it when you use the -name and the -path flags together?

Answer 13

an AND query

Question 14

How can you use the find command to do an OR query?

Answer 14

Using the -or flag within parantheses.
e.g. find . (-name *.gemspec -or -name *.jpg ) -type f
notice we are using backslashes to escape special characters

Question 15

Most of the problems you’ll run into with find queries arise because of _____.

Answer 15

improper escaping.

Question 16

How can we search for files or directories that don’t match a certain pattern?

Answer 16

using the -not operator in front of the -path flag

e.g. find . -not -path *t* -type f

Question 17

What is another way to call the -not operator?

Answer 17

with a bang

e.g. find . ! -path *t* -type f

Question 18

How can you search for files whose last modified date was the last n days.

Answer 18

• mtime

e. g. find . -mtime -1

Question 19

How can we look for files that have been modified in that last n minutes?

Answer 19

find . -mmin -n

Question 20

How can we search for files whose size is greater than 200 kilobytes?

Answer 20

find . -size +200k

Question 21

What are the modifiers for the -size flag for kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, and petabytes?

Answer 21

k M G T P

Question 22

How can we find a bunch of files, print them, and delete them with the find command?

Answer 22

find ./guides -type f -name *.yml -print -delete