Workbook 2 Filesystem Basics: Chapter 4 Managing Directories

Question 1

Give a command line that creates a directory named work

Answer 1

mkdir work [33]

Question 2

Give a command line that creates two directories whose names are work and play

Answer 2

mkdir work play [33]

Question 3

Give a command line that creates the directory homework/linux, assuming that the homework
directory did not exist.

Answer 3

mkdir homework/linux [33]

Question 4

True or false?

The following command line recursively lists a directory’s contents. ls -r

Answer 4

False!!!

Must be the upper case -R[34]

Question 5

True or false?
Assuming that you have sufficient privileges and that somedir is a directory, the following command line will always remove that directory. rmdir somedir

Answer 5

False!!!

somdir must be empty [34]

Question 6

Assuming that you have sufficient privileges, how do you use the rm command to remove the
homework/linux directory?

Answer 6

rm -r [37]

Question 7

What command outputs an ASCII directory tree?

Answer 7

tree /etc/NetworkManager/ [38]

Question 8

Referring to the previous question, what command option that outputs only directories?

Answer 8

ls -d [38]