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Unix Administration

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 42 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Stores hardware and software device driver. It maintains filesystem entries that represent the devices connected to the system.






2. k Desktop Environment is one of thredifferent GUI user interfaces.






3. Add a user to the system






4. A graphical utility used for searching files






5. home bin






6. Formatted listng with hidden files






7. A compressing utility that reduces the size of the named file






8. Stroes essential comman line utilities and binaries.






9. A terminal emulator - terminal application - term - or tty for short - is a program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a command line shell or text terminal - the term terminal cove






10. back one






11. Change dicrectory






12. Archiving command






13. Changes user password






14. Appends a file






15. tells you what kind of file it is






16. Enables a super user to remove a users account.






17. Enables a super user or root to create a new user or updates default new user information.






18. Change mode






19. List command






20. delete file






21. A shell script is a script written for the shell - or command line interpreter - of an operating system. It is often considered a simple domain-specific programming language. Typical operations performed by shell scripts include file manipulation - p






22. Creates a file






23. Copy files and set attributes






24. Create a directory file






25. Copy file1 to file2






26. Current directory






27. Copys and replace






28. Displays the default directory where the user is placed after loging in






29. Stores binaries that are used for completing the booting process and also the ones that are used by the root user-the adminstrator.






30. Grep searches the named input FILEs (or standard input if no files are named - or the file name - is given) for lines containing a match to the given PATTERN. By default - grep prints the matching lines.






31. Move and renames






32. Stores small programs and files accessible to all users






33. gunzip takes a list of files on its command line and replaces each file whose name ends with .gz - -gz - .z - -z - _z or .Z and which begins with the correct magic number with an uncompressed file without the original extension. gunzip also recognize






34. Adds content to files






35. Root symbol



36. directory listing






37. Rename or move file1 to file2 - if file2 is an existing directory - move file1 into directory file2






38. Makes empty files






39. super user






40. show hidden files






41. Look inside a file






42. Means it is a hidden file