Linux Commands and Scripting Quiz

You've just finished working on a script that organizes files in a directory, and you want to share it with a colleague. However, you realize that they may not have permission to execute it. What command do you use to give everyone execute permissions to your script named "organize.sh"?

• chmod 777 organize.sh
• chmod u+x organize.sh
• chmod a+x organize.sh
• chmod +x organize.sh

Which of the following are valid partitioning types? (choose two)

• PC

• MBR

• GPT

• BIOS

Which of the following commands will check hard disk GPT partitions? (choose three)

• gdisk

• sgdisk

• cgdisk

• fdisk

Which option for the usermod command can be used to specify a user’s group ID (either primary or secondary)? (choose two)

• -g

• -G

• -s

• -S

Which two pager commands are used by the man command to control movement within the document? (choose two)

• less

• grep

• more

• page

To search the man page sections for the keyword example, which of the following command lines could you execute? (choose two)

• man -f example

• man -k example

• whatis example

• apropos example

Which of the following commands can be used to access the home directory of the user “bob” while logged in as root? (choose two)

• cd /home/bob

• cd ~bob

• cd &&

• ~bob

Which option(s) can be used to prevent cp from overwriting an existing file? (choose two)

• -n

• -N

• -z

• -i

The touch command can be used to: (choose two)

• Create new files

• Change a file’s name

• Update the time stamp of existing files

• Change ownership of a file

Which of the following are glob characters? (choose three)

• The asterisk “*”

• The question mark “?”

• The dash character “-“

• The square brackets “[” and “]”