Linux Quiz 2a Covering ln, rm, apropos, cut and paste Commands
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Published: December 17, 2016
Updated: February 24, 2021
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Linux Command Line Quiz | 2a
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Linux Command Line Quiz for Beginners | 2a (6:28)
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#1
How do you make a symbolic link to file1.txt
called f1?
$ ln -s file1.txt f1
#2
How do you count the number of lines in
file1.txt?
$ wc -l file1.txt
#3
How do you sort the .bash_history file and print
to the screen?
$ sort .bash_history
#4
How do you count the number of ls commands in your
.bash_history?
$ grep -c "ls" .bash_history
#5
How do you create a directory called
files?
$ mkdir files
#6
How do you show programs with only grep in the
title?
$ apropos -e grep
#7
How do you rename file1.txt as
file2.txt?
$ mv file1.txt file2.txt
#8
How do you rename directory docs1 to docs2 with a
warning?
$ mv -i docs1 docs2
#9
How do you find help on the sed
command?
$ sed --help
#10
How do you count the occurence of lines in sorted
file1.txt?
$ uniq -c file1.txt
#11
How do you paste rows from file1.txt and file2.txt
together?
$ paste file1.txt file2.txt
#12
How do you select the first 5 characters from rows
in file1.txt?
$ cut -c 1-5 file1.txt
#13
How do you create a symbolic link to .bash_history
called hist?
$ ls -s .bash_history hist
#14
How do you compare file1.txt and file1.bak side
by side?
$ diff -y file1.txt file1.bak
#15
How do you merge file1.txt and file2.txt differences
into file3.txt?
$ sdiff -o file3.txt file1.txt file2.txt
#16
How do you remove file1.txt with a verification
prompt?
$ rm -i file1.txt
#17
How do you print the last 8 lines of .bashrc to
the screen?
$ tail -n 8 .bashrc
#18
How do you show lines common in both file1.txt and
file2.txt?
$ comm -12 file1.txt file2.txt
#19
How do you show the first 5 lines of
file1.txt?
$ head -n 5 file1.txt
#20
How do you copy docs1 directory and its files into
docs2?
$ cp -r docs1 docs2
#21
How do you delete recursively all files and a
directory called docs1?
$ rm -r docs1
#22
How do you find files on the system that include
the word bash?
$ find / -name "*bash*"
#23
How do you move file1.txt to a docs1 directory
after a prompt?
$ mv -i file1.txt docs1
#24
How do you join ; delimited file1.txt and file2.txt
on the first field?
$ join -t ";" file1.txt file2.txt
#25
How do you delete file1.txt and file2.txt preceded
by a prompt?
$ rm -i file1.txt file2.txt
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