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Learn Linux Quickly

You're reading from   Learn Linux Quickly A beginner-friendly guide to getting up and running with the world's most powerful operating system

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566002
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ahmed AlKabary Ahmed AlKabary
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Your First Keystrokes 2. Climbing the Tree FREE CHAPTER 3. Meet the Editors 4. Copying, Moving, and Deleting Files 5. Read Your Manuals! 6. Hard versus Soft Links 7. Who Is Root? 8. Controlling the Population 9. Piping and I/O Redirection 10. Analyzing and Manipulating Files 11. Let's Play Find and Seek 12. You Got a Package 13. Kill the Process 14. The Power of Sudo 15. What's Wrong with the Network? 16. Bash Scripting Is Fun 17. You Need a Cron Job 18. Archiving and Compressing Files 19. Create Your Own Commands 20. Everyone Needs Disk Space 21. echo "Goodbye My Friend" 22. Assessments 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Knowledge check

For the following exercises, open up your Terminal and try to solve the following tasks:

  1. Create three files hacker1, hacker2, and hacker3 in your home directory.
  2. Create three directories Linux, Windows, and Mac in your home directory.
  3. Create a file named cool inside the Linux directory you created in task 2.
  4. Create a file named boring inside the Windows directory you created in task 2.
  5. Create a file named expensive in the Mac directory you created in task 2.
  6. Copy the two files hacker1 and hacker2 to the /tmp directory.
  7. Copy the two directories Windows and Mac to the /tmp directory.
  8. Move the file hacker3 to the /tmp directory.
  9. Move the directory Linux to the /tmp directory.
  10. Remove the file expensive from the Mac directory (in your home directory).
  11. Remove the directory Mac from your home directory.
  12. Remove the directory Windows from your home directory.
  13. Remove the file hacker2 from your home directory.
  14. Rename the file hacker1 to hacker01.

True or false

  1. The cp command can...
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