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Unix Administration

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 42 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Archiving command






3. Means it is a hidden file






4. Root symbol



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






6. back one






7. Appends a file






8. Adds content to files






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






10. Change mode






11. Copy files and set attributes






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






13. Copy file1 to file2






14. 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.






15. Create a directory file






16. home bin






17. Changes user password






18. List command






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






20. A graphical utility used for searching files






21. super user






22. Makes empty files






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






24. Formatted listng with hidden files






25. Add a user to the system






26. Creates a file






27. delete file






28. tells you what kind of file it is






29. 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






30. directory listing






31. Change dicrectory






32. Look inside a file






33. Stores hardware and software device driver. It maintains filesystem entries that represent the devices connected to the system.






34. Stores small programs and files accessible to all users






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






36. Current directory






37. Stroes essential comman line utilities and binaries.






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






39. Move and renames






40. show hidden files






41. 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






42. Copys and replace