Basic Linux Command - Exercise

Instructions: write command sequence

Step 1: Basic commands and Listing Files

1. Open the terminal.
2. Check your current directory.(home directory)
3. List all files
4. Long list the files
5. Clear the screen
6. Display date and time
7. Display the login name
8. Display the os details
9. Exit from the terminal

Step 2: Creating and Removing Directories

1. Open the terminal.
2. Check your current directory.
3. List all files
4. Create a folder ITWORKSHOP
5. Change directory to ITWORKSHOP
6. Create two folders CSA and CSB
7. list the files
8. Move to CSB
9. Create an empty file
10. Move to the parent directory(ITWORKSHOP)
11. Use tree command to view the tree structure
12. Remove the directories CSA and CSB ( note that you cannot remove non empty directory)
13. Create a directory CSC
14. Move to your home directory
15. Recursively remove ITWORKSHOP and all its subdirectories.
16. Exit from the terminal

Step 3: Creating, Viewing, and Removing Files

1. Open the terminal.
2. Check your current directory.
3. List all files
4. Create a folder ITWORKSHOP
5. Move to the folder ITWORKSHOP
6. Create an empty file f1 
7. Create a file f2 with content "welcome to mec itworkshop"
8. Append "hello mec" to f1
9. Display the directory contents
10. Display the file contents f1 and f2
11. long list the files and check the permission, file size etc
12. Remove f2
13. Move to home directory
14. Remove ITWORKSHOP and all its contents
15. Exit from the terminal

Step 4: Copying and Moving Files

1. Open the terminal.
2. Check your current directory.
3. List all files
4. Create two directories APPLE and ORANGE
5. Create a file f1 with content "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"
6. Copy the file f1 to directory APPLE
7. Change directory to APPLE
8. List the files in the directory
9. Rename the file f1 to a1
10. Copy the file a1 to directory ORANGE
11. Change the directory to ORANGE
12. List the files in the folder
13. Copy the file a1 to a2
14. List the files in the folder
15. Merge the file a1 and a2 and create a new file o1
16. Remove a1 and a2
17. Move o1 to home directory
18. List the files
19. Display the content of o1
20. Remove o1
21. Remove the folders APPLE and ORANGE
22. Exit from the terminal

Step 5: Changing Permissions

1. Open the terminal.
2. Check your current directory.
3. List all files
4. Create a file f1 with content "hello mec"
5. Long list the details of file f1
6. Display the file f1 contents
7. Create a link to this file with name f2
8. Change the content of f2 by appending "cochin" to f2
9. Display the content of f1 and f2
10. Check the file details of f1 and f2 
11. Set the execute permission for owner for file f1
12. Set only execute permission for group and others for f2
13. Check the permissions using long listing
14. Give only read permission for others and group and give all permission for owners for both the files
15. Check the permissions by long listing f1 and f2
16. Remove f1 and f2
17. Exit from the terminal