GSCyber 4.3.1 - Advanced Linux CLI

Question 1

In Linux, what is the command to have superuser privileges?

Accepted Answer

sudo

Question 2

What command takes the standard output of the command on the left and appends (adds) to a file?

Accepted Answer

>>

Question 3

What does 'ls >> list' do?

Accepted Answer

Appends to a file called list

Question 4

Displays the entire contents of the specified file to the screen

Accepted Answer

cat

Question 5

What does this do? grep frog animals.txt

Accepted Answer

seaches for any word that contains 'frog' (including 'frogs')

Question 6

What command redirects the standard output to a file?

Accepted Answer

>

Question 7

Absolute path or relative path? Documents/Unit_1/myFile.txt

Accepted Answer

relative path

Question 8

What does this do? grep -w frog animals.txt

Accepted Answer

seaches for the exact word frog

Question 9

Displays information a screen at a time, you can also page back and forth

Accepted Answer

less

Question 10

Unsure what directory you are currently in, you decide to use the _____ command.

Accepted Answer

pwd

Question 11

What does su stand for?

Accepted Answer

switch user

Question 12

Absolute path or relative path? /home/adminuser

Accepted Answer

absolute path

Question 13

Command to search a file

Accepted Answer

grep

Question 14

What does this do? grep -i snake animals.txt

Accepted Answer

searches for snake or SNAKE or Snake (ignores case)

Question 15

Absolute path or relative path? Documents/Unit_1

Accepted Answer

relative path

Question 16

Another name for the root account in Linux.

Accepted Answer

Superuser

Question 17

Command to display the active user

Accepted Answer

whoami

Question 18

Command to empty the terminal screen

Accepted Answer

clear

Question 19

Absolute or relative? /abc/xyz/other

Accepted Answer

Absolute path

Question 20

Directory created for a user, using the user's login name and found in /home

Accepted Answer

Home Directory

Questions 20