1. Create a tree structure named ‘training’ in which
there are 3 subdirectories – ‘level 1’,’ level2’ and ‘cep’. Each one is again
further divided into 3. The ‘level 1’ is divided into ‘sdp’, ‘re’ and ‘se’.
From the subdirectory ‘se’ how can one reach the home directory in one step and
also how to navigate to the subdirectory ‘sdp’ in one step? Give the commands,
which do the above actions?
Ans : To navigate from 'se' to home
directory,in one step,the command is : cd
To navigate from 'se' to 'sdp',in one step,the command is : cd ../b
2. How will you copy a directory structure dir1 to
dir2 ? (with all the subdirectories)
Ans : cp –R dir1 dir2
3. How can you find out if you have the permission
to send a message?
Ans : ls -l ( To check access
permissions)
4. Find the space occupied ( in Bytes) by the /home
directory including all its subdirectories.
Ans : du -s -b
5. What is the command for printing the current time
in 24-hour format?
Ans : date +%T
6. What is the command for printing the year, month,
and date with a horizontal tab between the fields?
Ans : date +%Y%t%B%t%e
7. Create the following files: chapa, chapb, chapc,
chapd, chape, chapA, chapB, chapC, chapD, chapE, chap01, chap02, chap03,
chap04, chap05, chap11, chap12, chap13, chap14, and chap15.
Ans :The general syntax is :
cat > filename
Type the contents of file
Press Ctrl+D
1. cat > chapa
Type
the contents of file
Ctrl+D
2. Cat > chapb
Type
the contents of file
Ctrl+D
3. Cat > chapc
Type
the contents of file
Ctrl+D
4. Cat > chapd
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
5. Cat
> chape
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
6. Cat
> chapA
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
7. Cat
> chapB
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
8. Cat
> chapC
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
9. Cat
> chapD
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
10.
Cat
> chapE
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
11.
Cat
> chap01
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
12.
Cat
> chap02
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
13.
Cat
> chap03
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
14.
Cat
> chap04
Type the contents of file
Ctrl+D
15.
Cat
> chap05
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
16.
Cat
> chap11
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
17.
Cat > chap12
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
18.
Cat
> chap13
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
19.
Cat > chap14
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
20.
Cat>
chap15
Type the contents of
file
Ctrl+D
8. With reference to question 7, What is the command
for listing all files ending in small letters?
Ans : find –name “*[a-z].*”
9. With reference to question 7, What is the command
for listing all files ending in capitals?
Ans : find –name “*[A-Z].*”
10. With reference to question 7, What is the
command for listing all files whose last but one character is 0?
Ans : find –name “*0?.*”
11. With reference to question 7, What is the
command for listing all files which end in small letters but not ‘a’ and ‘c’?
Ans: find –name “*[b d-z].*”
12. In an organisation one wants to know how many
programmers are there. The employee data is stored in a file called ‘personnel’
with one record per employee. Every record has field for designation. How can
grep be used for this purpose?
Ans : grep -c "programmers"
personnel
13. In the organisation mentioned in question 12 how
can sed be used to print only the records of all employees who are programmers.
Ans : sed -n /programmers/p personnel
14. In the organisation mentioned in question 12 how
can sed be used to change the designation ‘programmer’ to ‘software
professional’ every where in the ‘personnel’ file
Ans :
sed 's/programmer/software professional/g' personnel
15. Find out about the sleep command and start five
jobs in the background, each one sleeping for 10 minutes.
Ans :sleep 10m & sleep 10m &
sleep 10m & sleep 10m & sleep 10m &
16. How do you get the status of all the processes
running on the system? i.e. using what option?
Ans : ps -e
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