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| What is the core of the Operating system? |
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| what is the Command interpreter called? |
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| what are Korn, Bourn, C shell? |
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| What is the default Bourn Shelll prompt for a regular user and root user? |
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| Bourn Shell uses $ for a regular user and the # for root? |
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| What is the default C shell prompt for a regular user and root user? |
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| Host name followed by a % sign for regular and host name followed by # sign |
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| What is the default Korn prompt for a regular user and root user? |
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| Regular user is $ and root is # |
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| What opens a single terminal window instead of starting a full desktop session? |
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| What Option buttons on login allow 3 types of sessions? |
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| Desktop, Lost DeskTop, FailSafe |
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| List two Desktop Environments |
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| Common (CDE) and Jave (JDE) |
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| How many Work spaces area available by default when logging in to your desk top session? |
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| What is the general Syntax of a UNIX command? |
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Command , Option and Argument Command specifies what the sytem does or executes Option starts with a - (-a, ls -l ). Argument specifys whats affected (file, dir or txt) Cal 12 2000 is an example of a command and 2 arguments |
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| What is this ";" used for? |
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The semi colon is used to seperate each command to enter multipul commands at once. The shell executes each command from left to right Format would be Command>option>argument; Command>option>argument |
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| Removes last word on the command line |
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| Removes all charaters on the current line |
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| List two options to search man pages |
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you can search by Section or Keyword |
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| the inode contains information about the type of info, permissions,ownership info,and location where data is stored. |
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| what will the pwd command tell you? |
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| Identifies the directory you are currently accessing |
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| How do you display directory contents? |
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ls to display contents ls -options filename -a, -l, -ld, and -R |
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| list all files in a directory including hidden files |
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(long list) used to view detailed info about the contents of a dir ls -l dir1 would allow you to view the detailed contents of dir1 |
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| used to view detailed info about a directory without viewing its contents |
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| To recursively display contents of its directory and its sub directory |
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| What is ls -F or File used for? |
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| used to display file type |
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| What are 4 possible outputs from file or ls -F command? |
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/ = directory * = executable (none)plane txt or ASCII @ = Symbolic link |
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| What is a Relative path name? |
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lists the directories in the path relative to the current working directory. |
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| What is an Absolute path name? |
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| lists all the directories in the path starting with the root directory. |
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| What is the more command used for? |
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used to view or page thru the contents of a text file
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| What will the tail command give you? |
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Tail command is used to view the last 10 lines of a file option(s) -n = dispalys n lines from the end of the file +n = displays file content from line n end to the end of the file |
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| what is the wc command used for? |
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word count = displays numbers of lines, words, and characters contained in a file options -l = line count -w =word count -c = byte count -m = character count |
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| List 3 common print commands |
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| what does the lp command do? |
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| sends print requests to printers |
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| what does the lpstat command do? |
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| displays information about the current status of the LP print service, including the status of print jobs |
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| sends print request to destination (desired printer) |
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| sends print request with no banner printed |
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| sends request to printer with number of copies |
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| send request to printer to send a mail message when complete |
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| what does the lpstat -p do? |
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| what does thelpstat -o do? |
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| status of all output requests |
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| what does thelp stat -d do? |
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| what does the lpstat -t do? |
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| complete status of all printers |
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| what does the lpstat -a do? |
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| Lists printers accepting print requests |
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| what does the lpstat printername do? |
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| The command used before executing the cancel command to identify the print Request-id |
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| Prevents you from over writting existing files or directories |
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| copies recursivly. Includes the contents of a directory, including the contents of all subdirectories, when you copy a directory |
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| what does the MV command do? |
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| the command used to rename a single file within the same directory or to move a file to a different dir or move a dir and contents to a diffenrent dir |
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| what does the rm command do? |
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| what does the rmdir command do? |
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| permanently remove empty directories |
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| what does this command do rm -r? |
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| remove directories that are not empty |
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| A path name to another file or directory |
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| what does the ln -s command do? |
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will create a symbolic link file ln -s source_file target_file |
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command line , interactive editor. used when windows desktop is not available. only text editor to edit certian files without changing the permissions and all talking place in the buffer |
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| list the 3 vi editor modes |
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command = delet, change or copy text edit = to enter text to a file last line = advanced editing commands(:) |
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| what will this command do vi -R? |
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| prevents accidental overwriting of the file content by opening in Read only mode |
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| what will this command do vi -r? |
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| recovers the specified file or lists the files that can be recovered. |
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| what will typing "/string" do? |
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| searches forward thru a string |
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| what will typing "?string" do? |
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| searchs backwards for the string |
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| what is the "set" command used for? |
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| used to customize a vi session |
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| What will the command ":set nu" do? |
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| What will the command :set nonu do? |
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| What will the command :set ic do? |
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| Instructs searches to ignore case |
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| What will the command :set all do? |
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| Displays all set vi variables and their current values |
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| What will the command :set list do? |
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| Displays invisible characters such as ^I for a tab $ for end of line characters |
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| What are Korn shell metacharacters? |
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| specific charaters, generally symbols having speacial meaning to the shell |
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| What are File name substitution Metacharaters? |
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they are substitution characters >Asterisk (*) zero or more characters (f* = Fxxxx) >Question Mark (?) any single character (f? = Fx) >Square Bracket ([]) set or range of characters ls [a-f]* |
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| If you see "z?:" after a search what does it mean |
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| no such file or directory |
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| instructs the shell to ignore all enclosed metacharacters |
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| instructs the shell to execute and display the output for a UNIX system command |
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| instructs shell to ignor all inclosed metacharacters |
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| prevents shell from interpreting the next character as a metacharacter |
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| what does this symbol do $ ? |
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| indicates that the following text is the name of a shell variable |
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| What is echo command used for? |
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| used to display the value that is stored inside a shell variable |
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| What is set command used for? |
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| list shell variables with thier current values |
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| What is an export command used for? |
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| IT makes the value of a variable known to a sub shell |
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| What is the EDITOR variable do? |
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| What is a logname variable do? |
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| What does a PATH variabile do? |
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| specifies a colon-delimited list of directories to be searched when the shell needs to find a command to be executed |
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| Specifies the primary KORN shell prompt ($) |
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| specifies the secondary KORN shell prompt (>) |
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| What does the history -n command do |
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| Displays the command history without line numbers |
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| What does the history -r command do? |
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| Displays the history list in reverse order |
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| What does the history cd ls command do? |
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| to display the most recent CD command to the most recent date command |
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alias built into the KORN shell that enables you to repeat a command example you pull history 159 cal 160 ls 161 cd $r 160 this would rerun he ls command |
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| What is the set -o vi command do? |
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| turn on and enable the shell history editing feature |
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| What is output redirection ? |
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sends the output from a command into a file instead of sending the output to a screen. (>) |
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| what is input redirection? |
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forces a command to to read the input from a file instead of the keyboard (<) |
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| what is stdin and whats is its number? |
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| starndard command input (0) |
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| what is stdout and what is its number? |
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| what is stderr and what is its number? |
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| What is the | (pipe) character used for? |
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| used to redirect the standard output to the input of another command |
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| what will the command do "2> filename"? |
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| redirection surpresses error messages from appearing on screen and redirects to standard error file |
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| executed everytime you log on and defines specific settings in the KORN shell. |
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| user identification number and it identifies who owns the file. |
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| group id, group users who owns the file |
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| What will the command ls -n do ? |
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| Will help determine ownership of a files and directories. |
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| What is chmod command used for? |
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| used to change the permission set for files and directories using symbolic or octal mode |
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| what is the default umask value in Solaris |
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| what is the initial permission value automaticly assigned by the Solaris OS for a new file. |
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| what is the initial permission value automaticly assigned by the Solaris OS for a new directory. |
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| what is ACL and what does it do? |
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| Access control list. It enables the owner of a file or directory to grant or deny specific user access |
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| What does the command getfacl -a do? |
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Displays all info about ACL |
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| What does the command setfacl -m do? |
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| creates or modifies ACL entries on files |
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| What does the command setfcal -s do? |
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| substitutes new ACL entries for old |
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| What does the command setfcal -d do? |
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| What does the command setfcal -r do? |
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| What does the command getfacl command do? |
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| will display the trivial ACL entries for a file or directory |
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| What command is used to display the actual list of ACL entries? |
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| Which command is used to modify the ACL entries of a file |
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| What will setfacl -r -m do? |
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| will recalculate the ACL mask entry |
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| Using the CHMOD command on a file that already has an ACL on it will recalculate the mask |
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| Can you use the file manager GUI to perform common ACL configuration tasks? |
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| Do ACL permissions modify the umask permissions settings to provide a second level of file and directory access protection |
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NO The ACL permissions provide a second level of access protection, but ACL's cannot modify the umask permissions settings |
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| What do grep, egrep,and fgrep do? |
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| Allows you to search the contents of files for patterns or strings of characters |
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| Searches the contents of one or more files for specific character patterns globaly |
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| Search for a file for a literal string or a group of characters. |
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| What is the find command used for? |
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| used to locate files or directories in the directory hierrarchy |
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| What will the command find -size [+|-]n do |
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| find files that are larger than +n or smaller than -n or exactly n |
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| What will the commandfind -atime[+|-]n do? |
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| find files that have been accessed more then +n days, less than -ndays, or exacty n days ago |
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| What will the commandfind -ntime [+|-]n do? |
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| find files that have been modified more then +n days, less than -ndays, or exacty n days ago |
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| What will the command find -user loginIDdo? |
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| finds all files that are owned by the login ID |
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| What will the command find -type do? |
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| What will the command find -perm do? |
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| Finds Files that have certian access permission Bits |
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processes that run in the background and provide services. |
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| used by the Kernal to track control and manage the process. |
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| What does the PS command do? |
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Lists the process that are scheduled to run. Dispays the PID, TTY, Time and CMD |
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| used to view a listing if all the processes currently scheduled to run on the system |
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will display the PID of every process that matches the specific criteria. |
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| Displays the PID that matches the pattern exactly |
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| displays only the most recently created PID that contains the pattern |
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Displays only the PIDs that belong to the specified user |
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| Displays name of the process along with the PID |
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| What does pgrep -t term do? |
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| Displays only those processes that are associated with a terminal in the term list |
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| what does the ptree command do? |
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Displays a process tree based on the specified PID |
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kill Signal that kills a process |
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Terminate A signal that terminates a process in a orderly manner |
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| What will pkill allow you to do? |
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| allows you yo use process name to terminate a process |
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| What will the "Jobs" command do? |
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| Lists all jobs that are currently running or are stopped in the background |
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| What does Job control command bg %n command do? |
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Runs the current or specified job in the background (n is job id) |
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| What does Job control command fg %n do? |
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| Brings the current or specified job into the foreground (n is job id) |
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| What does Job control command Control -Z do? |
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| Stops the foreground job and places it in the background as a stopped job |
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| What does job control command stop %n do? |
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| Stops a job that is running in the background (n is the Job ID) |
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| What does the (&)symbol at the end if the command line do? |
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| Runs a job in the background |
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| What general format must there be to run a shell function? |
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| A space must appear after the first brace and before the closing brace |
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| What does the typeset -f function command do? |
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| displays a list of all functions with definitions |
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| What does the typeset +f function do? |
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| lists just the function names |
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| shows current option settings |
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| What will set -o option_name do? |
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| What will set +o option_name do? |
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| What will the symbol "#!" be used for? |
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| used to identify the program that interperts the lines in the script |
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| An exit status is a numeric value that indicates success or failure. what are they? |
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| a value of zero indicates success while a non-zero value indicates failure and held in the $? special shell variable |
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| Ensures that a command is performed only if the preceding command succeeds |
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| What is the "|| " used for? |
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| Ensures that a command is performed only if the preceding command fails |
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| which file is a frequently used shell script that sets the working environment of the users |
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| This is used to create and extract files from a file archive or any removable media such as USB flash drive or a tape device |
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| lists the table of contents of the tar file |
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| extracts from the tar file |
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| Executes in verbose mode, writes to the standard output. |
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| Specifies the archive file or tape drive. |
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| Follows symbolic links as standard files or directories |
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What will $tar tf /dev/rmt/0 show you? |
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| This is the command to allows you to view the contentes of the archived directory on a tape |
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What does the jar command do? |
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| This command will combine multiple files into a single archive file. |
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What does the jar -c command do? |
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| what does the command jar -t do? |
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| this command will list the table of contents of the jar file |
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| what does the command jar -x do? |
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| Extracts files from the jar file. |
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What does the command jar -f do? |
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| specifies the jar file to process |
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| what does the jar -v command do? |
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what does this commmand do? $jar cvf /tmp/bundle.jar * |
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| this command will allow you to copy and compress multiple files into a single archive file. |
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| What does the compress command do? |
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This command reduces the size of a file, such that it occupies less disk space and takes less time for a transfer. compression reduces teh size of a text file by 50-60% |
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| what does 7az command do? |
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| what does the zcat command do |
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| allows you to view files that have been compressed via compress command |
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| what does the gzip command do? |
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| reduces the size of a file. |
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| what does the gunzip command do? |
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| restores a file that has been compresses with the gzip command |
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| what does the gzcat command do? |
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| allows you to view files that were compressed with with gzip or compress |
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| what does the zip command do? |
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| this command allows you to compress multiple files into a single archive file. |
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| what does the ./ rhostfile do? |
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| provides an authentication procedure to determine if a remote user can access the local host with the identity of the local user |
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| if the .rhosts file contains a (+) what does that mean? |
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| this means the user is able to login in from any known system on the network without a password. |
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| establishes a remote login session on another system. |
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| what does the rsh command allow you to do? |
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| This allows you to run a program on a remote system without having to log on to the remote system. |
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| what will telnet allow you to do? |
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| It allows you to log onto a remote system and work in that environment |
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| what does the rcp command allow you to do? |
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| It allows you to copy files or directories from one host to another. |
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