Linux Commands

Question 1

What does the “getfacl” command do?

Answer 1

Get file access control lists

Question 2

What is the “man” command?

Answer 2

An interface to the online reference manuals; the system’s manual pager

Question 3

What does “sudo” allow a user to do?

Answer 3

Execute a command as the superuser or another user

Question 4

What does “chmod” stand for?

Answer 4

Change mode

Question 5

What does the “chmod” command do?

Answer 5

Change file mode bits; used to change the access permissions of file system objects (sometimes called modes)

Question 6

What does the “&” indicate at the end of a command?

Answer 6

To run the command in parallel to the shell program; run in the background.