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Contributed by: Iacobelli
  • 1. A directory is equivalent to a
A) Any document
B) File
C) Folder
D) File System
E) Word Document
  • 2. A path is a chain of ______
A) Directories
B) Hard Drives
C) Documents
D) Teddy Bears
E) Files
  • 3. Your home directory is
A) A special system directory that stores my passwords
B) Your home address
C) A default path that looks like a house
D) The default directory to store your files
E) The default directory where programs are
  • 4. the path / stands for
A) up one level
B) empty path
C) Root directory
D) down one level
E) the current directory
  • 5. the path ~ stands for
A) empty path
B) Root directory
C) up one level
D) Home directory
E) down one level
  • 6. if pwd outputs /User/james/test/" you are in what directory?
A) test under root
B) james under root under test
C) test under james under User
D) Test under james
E) User under james under test
  • 7. if pwd outputs /User/jane/programs/output then cd .. will take you to
A) programs/
B) /User/jane/programs/
C) /User/
D) /User/jane/
E) /User/jane/programs/data
  • 8. if pwd outputs /myfiles/modeling/airplanes/biplanes/ then assuming cd ../../data/ succeeds, pwd would now output:
A) /myfiles/modeling/data
B) /myfiles/data/
C) /myfiles/modeling/airplanes/biplanes/data
D) /myfiles/modeling/airplanes/biplanes/../
E) /myfiles/modeling/
  • 9. if pwd outputs "/Dog/Cat/mouse/" what commands should be used to list all the files in Dog/Cat/mouse/flea/?
A) ls
B) pwd flea
C) cd flea
D) cd flea; ls
E) ls -l
  • 10. if pwd outputs "/Dog/Cat/mouse/" what command(s) should be used to list all the files in Dog/Cat/mouse/flea/?
A) cd mouse/flea; ls
B) ls -l
C) ls flea/
D) pwd flea/ ; ls
E) list files flea
  • 11. if pwd outputs "/Dog/Cat/mouse/" and you type ls you will see:
A) all the files in the "mouse" directory
B) all the files in the "flea" directory
C) a commercial for buger king
D) all the files in Dog, Cat and mouse directories
E) the path to the mouse directory
  • 12. if pwd outputs /Dog/Cat/mouse/ and then you issue a cd ~ how do you get back to the original directory?
A) cd ~/Dog/Cat/mouse
B) cd /dog/cat/mouse
C) cd orig-dir
D) cd /Dog/Cat/mouse
E) cd dog/cat/mouse
  • 13. let's say pwd outputs /Users/john/ Now, you have a file /dog/cat/mouse.dat and want to copy it to /dog/cat/rat.dat what command would you issue?
A) cp /dog/cat/mouse.dat /dog/cat/rat.dat
B) mv /dog/cat/mouse.dat /dog/cat/rat.dat
C) cp /Users/john/mouse.dat rat.dat
D) mv /dog/cat/mouse.dat rat.dat
E) cp /dog/cat/mouse.dat rat.dat
  • 14. let's say pwd outputs /dog/cat/ Now, you have a file /dog/cat/mouse.dat and want to copy it to /dog/cat/rat.dat what command would you issue?
A) mv /dog/cat/mouse.dat /dog/cat/rat.txt
B) mv mouse.dat rat.dat
C) cp mouse.dat rat.dat
D) mv cp ls pwd
E) cp /dog/cat/mouse /dog/cat/rat
  • 15. let's say pwd outputs /dog/cat/ Now, you have a file /dog/cat/mouse.dat and want to copy it to /dog/cat/rat.dat what command would you issue?
A) cp /dog/cat/mouse.dat rat
B) cp /dog/cat/mouse /dog/cat/rat
C) cp /dog/cat/mouse.dat /dog/cat/rat.dat
D) mv mouse.dat rat.dat
E) mv /dog/cat/mouse.dat /dog/cat/rat
  • 16. let's say pwd outputs /dog/cat/ Now, you have a file /dog/cat/mouse.dat and want to move it to /dog/cat/rat.dat what command is equivalent to mv mouse.dat rat.dat
A) mv /dog/cat/rat.dat mouse.dat
B) cp mouse.dat rat.dat
C) mv /dog/cat/mouse.dat rat.dat
D) mv mouse.dat rat
E) find -space -time -travel
  • 17. let's say pwd outputs /dog/cat/ Now, you have a file /dog/cat/mouse.dat and want to move it to /dog/cat/rat.dat what command is NOT equivalent to mv mouse.dat rat.dat
A) mv ../cat/mouse.dat rat.dat
B) mv mouse.dat ../cat/rat.dat
C) mv /dog/cat/mouse.dat /dog/rat.dat
D) mv mouse.dat /dog/cat/rat.dat
E) mv /dog/cat/mouse.dat rat.dat
  • 18. let's say pwd outputs /dog/cat/ Now, you have a file /dog/cat/mouse.dat. You type cp mouse.dat rat.dat; cp rat.dat ../mice.dat then:
A) /dog/cat has three files
B) /dog/cat/mouse.dat has a file called rat.dat
C) /dog/ has three files, /dog/cat/ has two.
D) /dog/cat has two files, /dog has one file
E) /dog/cat has a file named mouse.dat
  • 19. let's say pwd outputs /p/g/ Now, you have a file /p/g/out.dat. You type cp out.dat rat.dat; cp rat.dat ../mice.dat; cd ..; mv g/out.dat ." what would ls produce?
A) out with mice and rats!
B) p g mice.dat out.dat
C) mice.dat out.dat
D) mice.dat
E) out.dat rat.dat mice.dat
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