Post Exam 1

Question 1

tee

Answer 1

capture the output of a command and save it to a file while seeing the output on your screen

command | tee fileName

Question 2

cat > fileName

Answer 2

create the file and manual entry the contents

cat > filename (file created)
file information
file information
file information

Question 3

cat file1 file2

Answer 3

combine and display both files

can be used to combine the files and save the result
cat file1 file2 > newfile

Question 4

paste

Answer 4

command that combines files side by side

file1line1 file2line1
file1line2 file2line2
file1line3 file2line3

Question 5

paste -d

Answer 5

command that combines files side by side with a delimiter option. The delimiter allows a different separator (other than tab) between the columns.

Ex: paste -d ‘,’

Question 6

find

Answer 6

command to find a file or directory by name

file /location/directory -name “searchcriteria”

Question 7

paste -s

Answer 7

command that combines files side by side with an option. -s cases files to be pasted one after the other instead of in parallel.