Question

4. (15%) Show the commands you would use change the current working directory from student’s home directory: /home/student to the student’s apache web directory:/var/www/student using:

a. (5%) A series of relative commands

b. (5%) A single relative command

c. (5%) A single absolute command

5. (20%) Suppose you are presently in the /home/student folder and you wish to copy a file (file3.jpg) from the /home/seed/pics directory to your current directory. Provide two sets of copy commands to accomplish your goal: one using absolute paths only and one using relative paths only. (Show the two commands only)

Using Linux

Answer 1

4. Show the commands you would use change the current working directory from student’s home directory: /home/student to the student’s apache web directory:/var/www/student using:

a.  A series of relative commands:

Solution :

1. Switch to Root Directory:  

 cd ~

2. Go to /var/www/ :

  cd var/www/

b. A single relative command

Solution :

  cd ../../var/www/

c. A single absolute command

Solution :

  cd /var/www/

d. Suppose you are presently in the /home/student folder and you wish to copy a file (file3.jpg) from the /home/seed/pics directory to your current directory. Provide two sets of copy commands to accomplish your goal: one using absolute paths only and one using relative paths only.

Solution :

• Using Absolute path :

   cp /home/seed/pics/file3.jpg  /home/student/

• Using Relative Path :

    cp  ../seed/pics/file3.jpg .