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| 2.1 - Name 4 examples of shells used in Linux |
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| Bourne-again shell (BASH), C shell (csh/tcsh), Korn shell (ksh), Z shell (zsh) |
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| 2.1 - What does the standard user prompt look like in Debian and Ubuntu? |
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| 2.1 - What does a root user command prompt look like in Ubuntu and Debian? |
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| 2.1 - What does a standard user prompt look like in Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora? |
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| 2.1 - What does a root user command prompt look like in Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora? |
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| 2.1 - Name the two ways to type "switches" in the command line |
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| short form (-h) or long form (--help) |
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| 2.1 - What does a "switch" do to a command? |
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| 2.1 - What does an "argument" do to a command? |
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| Add additional data (i.e. filename, username, path) |
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| 2.1 - What are internal commands? |
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| They are part of the shell environment (executed inside the shell) |
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| 2.1 - What are external commands? |
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| External commands reside in individual files, usually a binary or script file. |
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| 2.1 - What does the shell use if a command is not built in? |
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| These are external commands and the shell will use the $PATH variable to search for the executable. |
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| 2.1 - What are the three types of "quoting" |
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| double quotes (" "), single quotes (' '), escaping ( \ ) |
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| 2.1 - How do you display a list of the current environment variables? |
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| 2.1 - What are local variables? |
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| These variables are only available to the current shell process |
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| 2.1 - What are global variables? |
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| Are available for use outside a function |
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| 2.1 - What command can you use to remove a variables? |
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