Linux Quiz 1a Covering whereis, ls, alias, man and nano Commands
This is the first quiz with a video set to relaxing music.
Study - Review the first 20 commands in the Linux
Essentials YouTube Playlist, or 20 web pages found here.
Quiz - Watch the video and see how many answers you
get correct.
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Published: November 26, 2016
Updated: February 24, 2021
As with learning to code, the feedback loop is vital and here we cover the first 10 commands from Linux Essentials so you can see what you need to reinforce.
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Linux Command Line Quiz 1a
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set to relaxing music. Second is a text-based quiz with the same
25 questions. Good luck and have fun.
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#1
How do you find the manual page for the shell
built-in called cd?
$ man bash
#2
How do you edit and save an alias across
sessions?
$ nano ~/.bashrc
#3
How do you show the current working
directory?
$ pwd
#4
How do you list all aliases present in the current
session?
$ alias
#5
How do you list shell built-in
commands?
$ bash -c help
#6
How do you find who you are logged in
as?
$ whoami
#7
How do you display the PATH
variable?
$ echo $PATH
#8
How do you stop multi-line input entered using the
cat command?
$ Ctrl-c
#9
How do you change to the root
directory?
$ cd /
#10
How do you locate the manual page for the touch
command?
$ whereis -m touch
#11
How do you access reference material for the
cat command?
$ man cat
#12
How do you wipe the terminal clean and start a
fresh screen?
$ clear
#13
How do you access a one-line summary of
bash?
$ whatis bash
#14
How do you edit and save an alias across
sessions?
$ nano ~/.bashrc
#15
How do you stop a process using a
shortcut?
$ Ctrl-c
#16
How do you show files in one
column?
$ ls -1
#17
How do you open file1.txt for editing using a
basic editor?
$ nano file1.txt
#18
How do you access reference material for a shell
built-in?
$ man bash
#19
How do you find help on whereis if not using
--help?
$ whereis -h
#20
How do you show tomorrow's date without the
time?
$ date --date="tomorrow" +%D
#21
How do you logout and close the terminal using a
shortcut?
$ ls -1
#22
How do you display Hello World on two
lines?
$ echo -e "Hello\nWorld"
#23
How do you use the default pager for man pages to
view file1.txt?
$ less file1.txt
#24
How do you create a new empty file called
file1.txt?
$ touch file1.txt
#25
How do you find version info on the whatis
command?
$ whatis --version
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