Kt call for doubt resolution---10:00-10:55

Kt Bizmatics 11:10-12:45

Call with sushil and rubeena 12:45 to 13:20

Rossi call 13:20 14:20

Ganesh Kt 14:50 to 16:00

o last,
o chage,
o chsh,
o lsof,
o chown,
o chmod,
o useradd,
o userdel,
o newusers etc.

o 32) Which partition stores the system

configuration files in Linux system?
o /stc partition.

o 33) Which command is used to uncompress

gzip files?
gunzip command is used to uncompress gzip files.

o 34) Why do developers use MD5 options on

passwords?
o MD5 is an encryption method, so it is used to encrypt the passwords before
saving.
 o 38) What are the file permissions in Linux?
There are 3 types of permissions in Linux OS that are given below:

o Read: User can read the file and list the directory.
o Write: User can write new files in the directory .
o Execute: User can access and run the file in a directory.

39) What are the modes used in VI editor?

There are 3 types of modes in vi Editor:

o Regular mode or command mode

o Insertion mode or edit mode
o Replacement mode or Ex-mode

40) How to exit from vi editors?

The following commands are used to exit from vi editors.

1. :wq saves the current work and exits the VI.

2. :q! exits the VI without saving current work.

41) How to delete information from a file in vi?

The following commands are used to delete information from vi editors.

1. x deletes a current character.

2. dd deletes the current line.
42) How to create a new file or modify an existing
file in vi?

1. vi filename

1. Q. How do you list files in a directory?

A. ls - list directory contents

-ls (-l use a long listing format)

2. Q. How do you list all files in a directory, including the hidden files?

A. ls -a (-a, do not hide entries starting with .)

3. Q. How do you find out all processes that are currently running?

A. ps -f (-f does full-format listing.)

4. Q. How do you find out the processes that are currently running or a particular
user?

A. ps -au Myname (-u by effective user ID (supports names)) (a - all users)

5. Q. How do you kill a process?

A. kill -9 8 (process_id 8) or kill -9 %7 (job number 7)

kill -9 -1 (Kill all processes you can kill.)

killall - kill processes by name most (useful - killall java)

6. Q. What would you use to view contents of the file?

A. less filename

cat filename

pg filename
pr filename

more filename

most useful is command: tail file_name - you can see the end of the log file.

7. Q. What would you use to edit contents of the file?

A. vi screen editor or jedit, nedit or ex line editor

8. Q. What would you use to view contents of a large error log file?

A. tail -10 file_name ( last 10 rows)

9. Q. How do you log in to a remote Unix box?

A. Using telnet server_name or ssh -l ( ssh - OpenSSH SSH client (remote login program))

10.Q. How do you get help on a UNIX terminal?

A. man command_name

info command_name (more information)

11.Q. How do you list contents of a directory including all of its

subdirectories, providing full details and sorted by modification time?

A. ls -lac

-a all entries

-c by time

12.Q. How do you create a symbolic link to a file (give some reasons of doing so)?

A. ln /../file1 Link_name

Links create pointers to the actual files, without duplicating the contents of

the files. That is, a link is a way of providing another name to the same file.
14.Q. How do you get its usage (a filesystem)?
A. By storing and manipulate files.

15.Q. How do you check the sizes of all users� home directories (one command)?
A. du -s
df
The du command summarizes disk usage by directory. It recurses through all subdirectories and
shows disk usage by each subdirectory with a final total at the end.

Q. in current directory
A. ls -ps (p- directory; s - size)

16.Q. How do you check for processes started by user 'pat'?

A. ps -fu pat (-f -full_format u -user_name )

17.Q. How do you start a job on background?

A. bg %4 (job 4)

18 Q. What utility would you use to replace a string '2001' for '2002' in a text file?

A. Grep, Kde( works on Linux and Unix)

19. Q. What utility would you use to cut off the first column in a text file?
A. awk, kde

20. Q. How to copy file into directory?

A. cp /tmp/file_name . (dot mean in the current directory)

21. Q. How to remove directory with files?

A. rm -rf directory_name

22. Q. What is the difference between internal and external commands?

A. Internal commands are stored in the; same level as the operating system while external

commands are stored on the hard disk among the other utility programs.

27. Q. What command do you type to find help about the command who?
A. $ man who

28. Q. What is the difference between home directory and working directory?
A. Home directory is the directory you begin at when you log into the
system. Working directory can be anywhere on the system and it is where you are currently
working.

29. Q. Which directory is closer to the top of the file system tree, parent directory or current
directory?
A. The parent directory is above the current directory, so it is closer to
the root or top of the
file system.

30. Q. Given the following pathname:

$ /business/acctg/payable/supplier/april
a) If you were in the directory called acctg, what would be the relative
pathname name for the file called april?
b) What would be the absolute pathname for april?
A.
a) $ payable/supplier/april
b) $ /business/acctg/payable/supplier/April
31. Q. Suppose your directory had the following files:
help. 1 help.2 help.3 help.4 help.O1 help.O2
aid.O1 aid.O2 aid.O3 back. 1 back.2 back.3
a) What is the command to list all files ending in 2?
b) What is the command to list all files starting in aid? c) What is the command to list all "help" files
with one character extension?
A.
a) ls *2
b) ls aid.*
c) ls help.?

32. Q. What are two subtle differences in using the more and the pg commands?
A. With the more command you display another screenful by pressing
the spacebar, with pg you press the return key.
The more command returns you automatically to the UNIX
shell when completed, while pg waits until you press return.

33. Q. When is it better to use the more command rather than cat command?
A. It is sometimes better to use the more command when you are viewing
a file that will display over one screen.

34. Q. What are two functions the move mv command can carry out?
A. The mv command moves files and can also be used to rename a file or directory.

35. Q. Name two methods you could use to rename a file.

A. Two methods that could be used:
a. use the mv command
b. copy the file and give it a new name and then remove the original file if no longer needed. f)
make a new file called Gteam.OO4 that is identical to Gteam.OOl
g) make a new file called Gteam.OO5 that is identical to Bteam.OO2
A.
a) mv Bteam.abc Bteam.OO3.
b) cat Gteam.win -or- more Gteam.win
rm Gteam. win
c) mkdir boys
mkdir girls
d) mv Bteam* boys
e) mv Gteam* girls
f) cd girls
cp Gteam.OO1 Gteam.OO4
g) There are several ways to do this. Remember that we are currently in the directory
/soccer/girls.
cp ../boys/Bteam.OO2 Gteam.OO5
or
cd ../boys
cp Bteam.OO2 ../girls/Gteam.OO5

37. Q. Draw a picture of the final directory structure for the "soccer"
directory, showing all the files and directories.

38. Q. What metacharacter is used to do the following:

1.1 Move up one level higher in the directory tree structure
1.2 Specify all the files ending in .txt
1.3 Specify one character
1.4 Redirect input from a file
1.5 Redirect the output and append it to a file
A.
1. 1.1 double-dot or ..
1.2 asterisk or *
1.3 question or ?
1.4 double greater than sign: >>
1.5 the less than sign or <

39. Q. List all the files beginning with A

A. To list all the files beginning with A command: ls A*

40. Q. Which of the quoting or escape characters allows the dollar sign ($) to retain its special
meaning?
A. The double quote (") allows the dollar sign ($) to retain its special meaning.
Both the backslash (\) and single quote (') would remove the special meaning of the dollar sign.

41. Q. What is a faster way to do the same command?

mv fileO.txt newdir
mv filel.txt newdir
mv file2.txt newdir
mv file3.txt newdir
A. A shortcut method would be: mv file?.txt newdir

42. Q. List two ways to create a new file:

A.
a. Copy a file to make a new file.
b. Use the output operator e.g. ls -l > newfile.txt

43. Q. What is the difference between > and >> operators?

A. The operator > either overwrites the existing file (WITHOUT WARNING) or creates a new file.
The operator >> either adds the new contents to the end of an existing file or creates a new file.

44. Write the command to do the following:

44.1 Redirect the output from the directory listing to a printer.
44.2 Add the file efg.txt to the end of the file abc.txt.
44.3 The file testdata feeds information into the file called program
44.4 Observe the contents of the file called xyz.txt using MORE.
44.5 Observe a directory listing that is four screens long.
A.
44.1 ls > lpr
44.2 cat efg.txt >> abc.txt
44.3 program < testdata
44.4 more < xyz.txt
44.5 ls > dirsave | more

45. Q. How do you estimate file space usage

A. Use du command (Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for
directories.) Good to use arguments du -hs
(-h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
(-s, --summarize display only a total for each argument)

46. Q. How can you see all mounted drives?

A. mount -l

47. Q. How can you find a path to the file in the system?
A. locate file_name (locate - list files in databases that match a pattern)

48. Q. What Linux HotKeys do you know?

A. Ctrl-Alt-F1 Exit to command prompt
Ctrl-Alt-F7 or F8 Takes you back to KDE desktop from command prompt
Crtl-Alt-Backspace Restart XWindows
Ctrl-Alt-D Show desktop

49. Q. What can you tell about the tar Command?

A. The tar program is an immensely useful archiving utility. It can combine
an entire directory tree into one large file suitable for transferring or
compression.

50. Q. What types of files you know?

A. Files come in eight flavors:
Normal files
Directories
Hard links
Symbolic links
Sockets
Named pipes
Character devices
Block devices

51. Q. How to copy files from on PC to another on the same network

A. Use the following command:scp yur_file you_login@your_IP
example: copy .conf file from your PC to alex computer-
scp /etc/X11/xorg.conf alex@10.0.10.169:

52. Q. Please describe information below:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 dotpc dotpc 102 Jul 18 2003 file.buf

drwxr-xr-x 9 dotpc dotpc 4096 Oct 21 09:34 bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dotpc dotpc 20 Mar 21 15:00 client -> client-2.9.5
drwxrwxr-x 11 dotpc dotpc 4096 Sep 2 2005 client-2.8.9
drwxrwxr-x 7 dotpc dotpc 4096 Dec 14 12:13 data
drwxr-xr-x 12 dotpc dotpc 4096 Oct 21 09:41 docs
drwxr-xr-x 5 dotpc dotpc 4096 Dec 7 14:22 etc
drwxr-xr-x 11 dotpc dotpc 4096 Mar 21 15:54 client-2.9.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 dotpc dotpc 644836 Mar 22 09:53 client-2.9.5.tar.gz

A. This is a result of command $ls -l

we have two files, 6 directories and one link to client-2.9.5 directory.
There is number of files in every directory, size and data of last change.

53. Q. If you would like to run two commands in sequence what operators you can use?

A. ; or && the difference is:

if you separate commands with ; second command will be run automatically.
if you separate commands with && second command will be run only in the case
the first was run successfully.

54. Q. How you will uncompress the file?

A. Use tar command (The GNU version of the tar archiving utility):
tar -zxvf file_name.tar.gz
55. Q.How do you execute a program or script, my_script in your current directoty?
A. ./my_script

56. Q.How to find current time configuration in the file my_new.cfg

A. grep time my_new.cfg
Grep searches the named input files (or standard input if
no files are named, or the file name - is given) for lines
containing a match to the given pattern.

Q. What does grep() stand for?

A. General Regular Expression Parser.

57. Q. What does the top command display?

A. Top provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real
time. It displays a listing of the most CPU-intensive
tasks on the system, and can provide an interactive interÂ
face for manipulating processes. (q is to quit)

58. Q. How can you find configuration on linux?

A. by using /sin/ifconfig
If no arguments are given, ifconfig displays the status of the cur-
rently active interfaces. If a single interface argument is given, it displays the status of the given
interface only; if a single -a argu-
ment is given, it displays the status of all interfaces, even those
that are down. Otherwise, it configures an interface.

59. Q. How to find difference in two configuration files on the same server?
A. Use diff command that is compare files line by line
diff -u /usr/home/my_project1/etc/ABC.conf /usr/home/my_project2/etc/ABC.conf

60. Q. What is the best way to see the end of a logfile.log file?
A. Use tail command - output the last part of files
tail -n file_name ( the last N lines, instead of the last 10 as default)

61. Q. Please write a loop for removing all files in the current directory that contains a word 'log'
A. for i in *log*; do rm $i; done

62. Question: How to switch to a previously used directory?

Answer: cd -

1. Q.How many VI editor modes do you know?

A.Three modes -
Command mode: letters or sequence of letters interactively command vi.
Insert mode: Text is inserted.
Command line mode: enter this mode by typing ":" and entry command line at the foot of the
screen.

2. Q. How can you terminate VI session?

A.

# Use command: ZZ that is save changes and quit.

# Use command line: ":wq" that is write changes and quit.

# Use command line: ":q!" to ignore changes and quit. 3. Q. How can you copy lines into the buffer
in command mode? A. yy - copy a single line defined by current cursor position 3yy - copy 3 lines.
Current line and two lines below it.