Questions
In our second chapter, we covered the Linux filesystem and the basic commands that will serve as the foundation for the entire book. Here are some questions for you to test your knowledge and for further practice:
- What is the command that creates a compressed archive with all the files inside the
/etc
directory that use the.
conf
extension?
Hint: Use the tar
command just as shown in this chapter.
- What is the command that lists the first five files inside
/etc
and sorts them by dimension in descending order?
Hint: Use find
combined with sort
and head
.
- What command creates a hierarchical directory structure?
Hint: Use mkdir
just as shown in this chapter.
- What is the command that searches for files with three different extensions inside the root?
Hint: Use the find
command.
- Find out which commands inside Linux have the Set owner User ID (SUID) set up.
Hint: Use the find
command with the -
perm
parameter...