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| 2.1.1 - What does the "cat" command do? |
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| Concatenates file contents to standard output |
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| 2.1.1 - what does the "ls" command do? |
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| Displays the contents of a directory |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "cut" command do? |
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| Removes sections from each line of a file |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "cd" command do? |
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| Directory traversal (changes directories) |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "cp" command do? |
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| Copies files and directories |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "mv" command do? |
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| Moves files as well as renaming files |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "mkdir" command do? |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "touch" command do? |
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| Updates access and modification data. Can create empty files as well. |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "wc" command do? |
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| Prints newline, word and byte counts for a file |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "passwd" command do? |
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| Updates a user's authentication token |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "rm" command do? |
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| Removes files (by default "rm" does not delete directories, use the "-r" switch) |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "rmdir" command do? |
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| Deletes empty directories |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "more" command do? |
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| Filter for paging through text, one screenful at a time. (outdated - use "less" instead as it is more robust) |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "less" command do? |
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| Similar to "more" however allows for backward and forward viewing |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "whereis" command do? |
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| Locates the binary, source and manual pages for a command |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "head" command do? |
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| Outputs/prints the first 10 lines (by default)of a file |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "tail" command do? |
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| Outputs/prints the last 10 lines(by default) of a file |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "sort" command do? |
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| Write sorted concatenation of all files to standard output. |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "tr" command do? |
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| Translate, squeeze and/or delete characters from standard input, writing to standard output |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "chmod" command do? |
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| Changing file mode bits (permissions)(symbolic or octal number) |
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| 2.1.1 - What does the "grep" command do? |
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| Print line matching pattern to standard output |
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