Homework assignment HW2

Homework log

Remember to create a new post with a new topic “HW2” in your homework log channel on Microsoft Teams. Make a reply to that topic whenever do some work on this assignment. You can also post questions there. Your posts should provide evidence that you spent several hours doing meaningful work.

Objectives

The main objective for this assignment is to learn usage of a wider range of command line utilities in the Linux environment from HW1. At a minimum this should include (some of these are repeats from the previous assignment):

• absolute and relative paths; whomai; pwd; how to represent the absolute and relative versions of the path to your home directory; the root directory;
• cd, cd ~; cd /; cd ..;
• ls, ls -a, ls -l, ls -al, ls -lh, ls -R;
• mkdir, mkdir -p; rmdir; rm, rm -r careful!;
• cp, cp -r; mv;
• the use of wildcards in file names;
• cat; man; head;
• short form and long form command line options
• hidden files
• the nano text editor, including how to create a new file, edit an existing file, save a file, and exit the editor

PB version

The Professor Braught version is available as:

• 02-A-LinuxCLI.docx You are free to follow this version closely if desired, or use it as a loose guide to your activities.

Likely quiz questions

• What is the name of the text editor we studied, for use within a Linux terminal to create and edit text files?
• When would you use mkdir -p?
• Give an example of a command that uses a long form option.
• How would you get documentation on the tail command from within a Linux shell?