CENT 228

TASKS FOR HANDS-ON EXAM 1

For this exam you should be able to:

Log into exam account in virtual console environment.

Be able to create, copy, move, rename, delete files and directories.

Use appropriate commands to view and verify file content.

Create shell and environment variables as specified.

Display the values of shell and environment variables (also called dereferencing).

Create and use aliases.

Redirect input and output for commands.

Construct sequences of piped commands.

Use vi to create and edit text files, including shell configuration files (.bashrc and .bash_profile).

Use system help features such as man pages and info pages. (You are allowed to use any of the
help resources installed on your computer during the skills part of the exam. You are NOT
allowed to use on-line resources.)

Use the find command to find files that meet specified criteria.

Use grep to search file contents, including simple regular expressions.

Use the tar command to create and extract archives, including using gzip and bzip2 compression.

Use shell metacharacters and filename globbing.

Use command history functions.

For this exam, you should be familiar with the following command line utilities. There may be others that
I havent thought of, so add them to the list as you think of them.

File management commands (mv, cp, rm, rmdir, cd, and so forth)

ls, wc, cat, touch, head, tail, grep, find, vi, tar, gzip, bzip2, echo, file

man, info

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