VMWARE Linux Command Prompt

Question 1

What does $cd / do?

Answer 1

Take you to the root directory

Question 2

What does $cd ~

Answer 2

Take you to the home directory

Question 3

what does $pwd do?

Answer 3

pwd shows you the current directory your in / route or pathway

Question 4

What does $ls do?

Answer 4

lists all the directorys and files in the current directory.

Question 5

$cd ..

Answer 5

goes back a directory/goes out a directory

Question 6

What is absolute addressing?

Answer 6

Absolute addressing takes you straight to the place you want to go
starting from the root.
e.g.

$cd /lib/books

Question 7

What is relative adressing?

Answer 7

Relative addressing takes you to the place you want to go in steps. starting from the current directory for example.
e.g.

$cd ../../lib/books

As you can see this doesn’t start with a / as well because its relative

Question 8

What does $mv file1.txt milo

Answer 8

it moves file1.txt into the milo directory

Question 9

What does $mkdir milo

Answer 9

Makes a directory called milo

Question 10

What does $rm -r milo

Answer 10

deletes the directory called milo
(You have to add a -r if you’re trying to delete a directory)

Question 11

What does $rm file1.txt

Answer 11

deletes the file1.txt

Question 12

What does $man mv

Answer 12

Shows a manual page of mv/instructions of what it does

Question 13

What does $touch file1.txt do?

Answer 13

It creates the file called file1.txt

Question 14

What does $echo funny guy > file1.txt do?

Answer 14

puts funny guy into file1.txt

Question 15

What does $cat file1.txt do?

Answer 15

It shows the contents of the file1.txt

Question 16

$Ps a

Answer 16

Shows all running directory’s or files.

Question 16

What does $bash rage.sh do?

Answer 16

bash is the first word before running a script.
for example.
bash rage.sh
If there is any code in the file it will run for example:
cat file1.txt – (This will print the contents of file1.txt when $bash rage.sh is run)

Question 16

What does $mv file1.txt file2.txt do?

Answer 16

this changes the name of file1.txt into file2.txt

Question 16

$ps a

Answer 16

Shows users running directories and files

Question 17

How do I open a gedit file? and what is it used for?

Answer 17

You open a gedit file by doing
gedit rage.sh
This creates a file/script called rage.sh
This could be used to run scripts. The use of it depends on the scripts implemented into the file.

Question 17

What does $cp file1.txt do?

Answer 17

copies the file1.txt and replaces the file1.txt if there is a file called file1.txt

Question 17

What usual format of an user input script?

Answer 17

echo “Do you like tacos?”
read [input variable] -in this case well do choice
read choice - this would be in line 2, choice is the input variable.
Wow, $choice is an interesting choice.

Question 18

What does $cp -i file1.txt do?

Answer 18

copies the file1.txt and replaces the file1.txt but asks if the user wants to replace the file if there is a file called file1.txt

Question 18

What is the format of a while loop that contains string in a script?

Answer 18

i=”Rah”
while [ $i == “Rah” ]
do
echo “I will find you”
i= “Found you”
done

Question 19

What is the format of a while loop that contains integers?

Answer 19

i= 0
while [ i !lt 9 ]
then
((i++))
done

Question 20

What is the format of an if statement that contains string in a script?

Question 21

What is the format of an if statement that contains integers in a script?

Question 22

What is a benchmark?

Question 23

What are wildcards and what do each characters do?

Answer 23

Wildcards are characters that fill in gaps for the user, if inputted.
This is to save time for the user if there’s a specific code or to shorten down the list.

e.g.
* - is for multiple characters
? - single character

Question 24

What would $find P*d search for?

Answer 24

anything starting with p and ending with d how many characters are in between p and d. (Inbetween the f and shire btw)

Question 25

What would $find f??dshire search for

Answer 25

would search for words containing f and ending with shire along with 2 characters in between them. (Inbetween the f and shire btw)

Question 26

What does $ls -l do?

Answer 26

lists the files and directories in a long listing format. (current directory)

Question 27

What does $ls -r do?

Answer 27

lists the files and directories in reversing order (current directory)

Question 28

What does $ls -lt do?

Answer 28

lists the files in order of modification. (current directory)

Question 29

What does $ls -lS do?

Answer 29

lists the files in order of size. (current directory)

Question 30

What does $ls -d do?

Answer 30

Lists the directories themselves, not their contents.

Question 31

What does $exit do?

Answer 31

Exits the shell.

Question 32

What does $clear do?

Answer 32

“clears” the command prompt/shell
but it takes you further down
I’d say clears the shell/command prompt.

Question 33

what does $date do?

Answer 33

shows the systems date

Question 34

what does ls -d/etc

Answer 34

lists all the files in the etc folder.

Question 35

what does tail -n funny.txt do?

Answer 35

it displays the last 10 lines of funny.txt

Question 36

what does head -n funny.txt do?

Answer 36

displays the first 10 lines of funny.txt

Question 37

what does stat do?

Answer 37

shows the statistics of the files and directories.