Shell Commands

Question 1

pwd

Answer 1

Print working directory

Question 2

cd~

Answer 2

Change directory to Home

Question 3

cd

Answer 3

Change directory

Question 4

mkdir

Answer 4

Make directory

Question 5

rmdir

Answer 5

Remove directory

Question 6

ls (LS)

Answer 6

List items in directory

Question 7

pushd

Answer 7

Push directory to Temp list and go to new directory

Question 8

popd

Answer 8

Pop back to last directory pushd to temp list

Question 9

cp -r

Answer 9

Copy directory and or file to a new location.

Question 10

ditto

Answer 10

Copy dir or file (creates new dir or merges with existing and retains resource forks and metadata)

Question 11

Interrupt a running command

Answer 11

Control C (for cancel)

Question 12

-v

Answer 12

Verbose mode; Terminal will type out what it is doing while it executes a command

Question 13

less some_File.txt

Answer 13

View a file

Question 14

cat

Answer 14

Print the whole file in terminal window without formatting.

Question 15

mv

Answer 15

Move a file or directory to another location

Question 16

Command K

Answer 16

Clear Terminal page

Question 17

clear

Answer 17

Move Terminal page up and out of sight

Question 18

touch

Answer 18

Create an empty file.

Question 19

cd ../../

Answer 19

go backwards in file path

Question 20

env

Answer 20

Look at our environment

Question 21

echo

Answer 21

Print some arguments

Question 22

exit

Answer 22

exit a program

Question 23

find

Answer 23

find files

Question 24

xargs

Answer 24

Execute some arguments

Question 25

grep

Answer 25

Find something in a file

Question 26

man

Answer 26

Read a manual page

Question 27

apropos

Answer 27

Find what manual page is appropriate

Question 28

export

Answer 28

export/set a new environment variable

Question 29

sudo

Answer 29

root user?)