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Can you name the beginner command-line commands?
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rets_kcin
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Man Page Description
Command
List directory contents
Change directory
Concatenate and print files
Remove directory entries
Move files
Write arguments to the standard output
Modify a user's password
Walk a file hierarchy
Compare files line by line
Format and display the on-line manual pages
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Beginner's Command Line Quiz
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rets_kcin
Created Oct 1, 2011 in
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malagasy
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Oct 1st, 2011 at 19:22 GMT
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This is an amazing game. It beyond blew my mind. I will never think of Unix commands the same way again.
bchurchill
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Jan 6th, 2012 at 13:09 GMT
1 point
Great quiz! Minor comment, on my system, the man page description for find is "search for files in a directory hierarchy". While I'm sure that "walk a file hierarchy" is correct on some systems, I think 'searching' suggests the correct answer more easily.
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