Commanding the Line

What can you press to cancel or quit a terminal program that seems not to be responding?

• Esc

• Power Button

• Command + Q

• Control + C

What is 'cd' short for?

• Current directory

• Create Directory

• Climate Dysfunction

• Change Directory

Which command should you use to search for a word across multiple files?

• grep

• ls

• cat

• delete

What is the tilde (~) symbol a shortcut for, when used on the command line?

• Your username

• The last command you typed

• The address of the store from which you bought the computer

• Your home directory

How do you browse through the history/log of commands you have typed on the command line?

• grep

• whoami

• Up/Down arrows

• google

Which of the following commands will show you the contents of a text file?

• less

• ls

• cat

• pwd

How do you change directory to a folder two levels up?

• cd ..

• cd ../..

• cd /

• cd .

How can you open a file using the default native (graphical) OSX application?

• top filename

• ls

• open ~

• open filename

How can you avoid typing out a whole file or folder name on the command line?

• Use Finder instead

• pwd

• ls filename

• Press [tab] after typing the initial few letters of the name