Shell Workshop

Question 1

Shell

Answer 1

Simply the outermost layer of an operating system. Designed to provide a way for you to interact with the tools and services that your operating system provides

Question 2

Terminal

Answer 2

Program we use to interact with the shell

Question 3

GUI

Answer 3

Graphical User Interaface

Question 4

Graphical Shells (GUI)

Answer 4

Interact with the OS with things like windows and buttons

Question 5

Text Shell

Answer 5

Uses text commands to interact with the OS, called a command line interface (CLI)

Question 6

BASH

Answer 6

One of the most widely used shells

Question 7

ls

Answer 7

List contents of the current directory

Question 8

cd

Answer 8

Change directory

Question 9

cd ..

Answer 9

Go up one directory (to the parent)

Question 10

ls ..

Answer 10

List the contents of the parent directory

Question 11

pwd

Answer 11

Print working directory (whatever directory the shell is currently looking at)

Question 12

ls .

Answer 12

Lists the working directory (current directory)

Question 13

ls ~

Answer 13

Lists the home directory

Question 14

Relative Path

Answer 14

The path relative to the directory you are currently on

Question 15

Absolute Path

Answer 15

The path relative to the home directory (full path)

Question 16

ls -l

Answer 16

Detailed list (long format)

Question 17

ls *(path)

Answer 17

Lists all files whose name match some pattern end

Question 18

ls (name)*

Answer 18

Lists all files whose names start with some term

Question 19

ls (name)

Answer 19

Lists all files whose name contains some term (middle)

Question 20

mkdir

Answer 20

Make a directory. Ex mkdir Documents/Books

Question 21

mv

Answer 21

Move from and to Ex. mv Documents/*.txt Documents/Books

Question 22

curl ‘URL’

Answer 22

See URL

Question 23

curl -L ‘URL’

Answer 23

See source code for webpage. Following redirects

Question 24

curl -L -o some_file.html ‘URL’

Answer 24

Redirect and output to file (-o) to some_file.html at ‘URL’

Question 25

cat filename.txt

Answer 25

Display the full contents of the file filename.txt

Question 26

less filename.txt

Answer 26

Displays the output in a format that allows you to search and scroll

Question 27

rm filename.txt

Answer 27

remove the filename.txt file

Question 28

rm -i

Answer 28

interactive remove (promts)

Question 29

rmdir

Answer 29

remove the directory