Tools of the Trade: Quiz 3

??? prints the working directory onto the screen

?? displays the names of files and

directories in the current working directory.

?? navigates between directories

??? displays the content of a file.

???? command displays just the beginning of a file, by default ten lines

Under the FHS, a file’s location can be described by a file path. A file path is the location of a file or directory. In the file path, the different levels of the hierarchy are separated by a forward ?.

The ???? directory is the highest-level directory in Linux, and it’s always represented with a forward slash (/).  All subdirectories branch off the ???? directory. Subdirectories can continue branching out to as many levels as necessary.

This directory stands for “binary” and contains binary files and other executables. Executables are files that contain a series of commands a computer needs to follow to run programs and perform other functions.

This directory stores the system’s configuration files.

This directory stores many temporary files.