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| What is this command? ls -F |
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lists files and appends an indicator to show if they are files, links, or directories
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| What is this command? cat |
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| displays the contents of a file |
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| How do you display the contents of the file readme.txt? |
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| What is this command? tail |
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| output the last part of a file |
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| how do I show the last few lines of the file readme.txt? |
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| What is this command? clear |
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| clears the terminal screen |
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| What is this command? reset |
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| resets your terminal to use default terminal settings |
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| What is this command? finger |
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| displays information on system users |
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| What is this command? who |
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| displays currently logged in users |
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| What is this command? whoami |
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| ID associated with your user account name and group names |
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| What is this command? date |
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| displays the current date and time |
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| What is this command? cal |
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| displays the calendar for the current month |
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| What is this command? exit |
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| exits out of your current shell |
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| how can I get help on the whoami command? |
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| What is this command? apropos |
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| used to search help manual pages |
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| how do I get the info page on the whoami command? |
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| how can I get help on the echo command if there is no man page nor info page? |
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| what command can I use to shutdown or restart Linux? |
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| How can I halt the system in 15 minutes? |
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| how can I cancel a shutdown command? |
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| log in as another user and type shutdown -c (for cancel) |
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| in the shutdown command, what is -h and -r? |
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| how can I shutdown in 20 minutes with the message "shutting down in 20 minutes for system maintenance" |
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| shutdown -h +20 Shutting down in 20 minutes for system maintenance |
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| what command allows you to make a disk part of the directory tree |
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| where are removable devices often located? |
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| If you are user bob, what is your default location when you log in? |
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| what command can you use to see what folder you are in currently? |
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| If you log in as root, what is your default home folder? |
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| how do I change directories to the ron folder under the home folder? |
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| what commands return you to your home directory? |
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| cd (without any arguments) or cd ~ |
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| what command will change you to the root folder? |
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| what is an absolute pathname |
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| the path to a folder starting from the / root |
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| what is a relative pathname |
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| the path to a folder starting from the current folder |
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| what command changes you to your parent's folder |
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| cd .. (with spaces between cd and ..) |
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| what command changes directory to the bob folder located under your parent folder? |
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| what command changes you to the parent directory of your parent directory? |
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| using tab completion how do you change to the /home folder? |
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| cd /h and then press the tab key |
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| which command lists files in the current folder? |
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| which command lists files in the /home/ron folder? |
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| what other command can you use instead of the ls command? |
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| how does the ls -F command identify a directory |
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| it appends / after the name of the directory |
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| how does the ls -F command identify a linked file |
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| it appends @ after the file name |
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| how does the ls -F command identify an executable file? |
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| it appends a * after the filename |
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| how do you list files with additional information to go with the names displayed? |
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| how does the ls -l command identify a directory |
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| d is the first character displayed |
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| how does ls -l identify a linked file |
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| l is the first character displayed |
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| how does ls -l identify an executable file? |
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| the permissions will have an x such as rwx-rwx-rwx |
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| how does ls -l identify an ordinary file? |
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| - is the first character displayed |
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| what is another command you can use instead of ls -l |
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| what command is used to get information about a file or directory? |
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| how can you use the file command to tell you what each file in the current folder is? |
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| what command shows hidden files? |
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| what command lists hidden files and also their filetypes |
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| how can you list files beginning with un |
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| how can you display files that start with u and end with e |
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| how can you list files that start with un and ends with me and does not care what the third position is? |
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| how can you display files that start with una and end with e but the four position must have an (e,g,m, or z)? |
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| what command lists files that start with una and end with e but the fourth position is not a letter from l to n? |
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| how can I view the contents of the file readme? |
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| how can I view the contents of the readme file and display each line number? |
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| how can I view the contents of the file readme but in reverse order? |
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| how can I display only the beginning of the file readme.txt? |
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| how can I view the end of the file log.txt |
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| how can I view the last 8 lines of the file log.txt |
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| how can I view the contents of a file called readme but stop one page at a time? |
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| when you use the more command, how do you display the next line? |
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| when using the more command, how do you display the next page |
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| what command is similar to the more command but is newer and with more features? |
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| how can I view the files of the current directory but stop the screen one page at a time? |
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| can you use the commands cat, tac, head, and tail on binary files? |
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| No, they should only be used on text files |
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| what command allows you to view the string portion of a binary file? |
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| how can you view the text portion of the echo command located in the /bin folder? |
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| what command can you use to view a binary file in octal format? |
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| what command can you use to search files for lines that match a given pattern? |
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| what command will return all the lines with "hello" in the file readme.txt? |
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| what command will return all lines in the file readme.txt with hello regardless of case? |
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| grep -i "hello" readme.txt |
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| what command will return lines with words starting with w and ending with e in the file readme? |
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| what command returns lines with words beginning with "I" in the file readme.txt? |
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| what command returns lines containing we or us in the file log.ini? |
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