Question

Login to Suse Linux as root. Complete the task working as the root user.

1. What is your current directory. What did you enter at the command prompt to determine your current working directory?

2. Change directories if needed to find your foods (or food) file. Use vi to make the file contain 10 food items. Save your file and quit. Use the cat command, and option, and the argument food to display the food file with numbered lines. Use one of the three types of help available in Linux to determine what option to use with the cat command to make line numbers appear. What did you enter at the commanand prompt?

3. Without changing directories display the /etc/passwd file. What did you enter at the command prompt?

Did you use an absolute or relative address(path)?

4. Use the grep command to display only the lines of the /etc/passwd file that contain the word false. What did you enter at the command prompt?

5. (Still in the /root directory) Make a directory named Expenses2020. What did you enter at the command prompt?

6. Using an absolute path, change to the /home directory, What did you enter at the command prompt?

7. Do a long list of the files of the /home (current) directory. What command did you use?                                                                              What option did you use?

8. Change to the student directory using a relative path. What did you enter at the command prompt?

9. A variable named OSTYPE is set at startup by the operating system.

When you enter:

echo The operating system is OSTYPE

it should display:              The operating system is linux

What do you need to add so the shell displays linux instead of the characters OSTYPE?

Change back to your home directory (/root)

10. Enter a command to display the last 2 lines of your food file (found in /root). What did you type in at the command prompt?

Answer 1

Answer 1
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pwd

Answer 2
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vi food

Pizza
burger
pasta
bread
sandwitch
puff
noodles
salads
fried rice
cake

:wq

cat -n food

Answer 3
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cat /etc/passwd

absolute path
An absolute path is defined as the specifying the location of a file or directory from the root directory(/).

relative path
.(a single dot) - this represents the current directory.
..(two dots) - this represents the parent directory.

Answer 4
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grep -w false /etc/passwd

Answer 5
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mkdir Expenses2020

Answer 6
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cd

or

cd /home

from anywhere you press cd you will be throw to home directory

Answer 7
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ls -l /home

Answer 8
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cd ../student

Answer 9
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first set OSTYPE=Linux for temporary session

madhav@siftworkstation:~$ OSTYPE=Linux
madhav@siftworkstation:~$ echo "The operating system is $OSTYPE"
The operating system is Linux
madhav@siftworkstation:~$cd /root

Answer 10
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tail -n 2 food

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