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Revision as of 17:13, 12 January 2020

ADVANCED UNIX / LINUX FILE MANAGEMENT

Main Objectives of this Practice Tutorial

  • Understand the difference between absolute / relative / relative-to-home pathnames
  • Get practice and learn how to use the above-named pathname types to be productive in Unix/Linux File Management
  • Understand the following Filename expansion (FNE) Symbols: * / ? / [ ] / [! ]
  • x
  • x

Tutorial Reference Material

Course Notes
Pathname Type / FNE / Quoting Reference
YouTube Videos
Course Notes:


Pathname Types
  • Absolute
  • Ralative
  • Relative-to-home

Ambiguous Filename Expansion Symbols

  • *
  •  ?
  • [ ]
  • [! ]
Quotation Symbols
  • Backslash \
  • Single Quotes ' '
  • Double Quotes " "
Instructional Videos:
  • Using Pathname Types
  • Filename Expansion
  • Quoting Special Characters

Absolute / Relative / Relative-To-Home Pathnames

x

Ambiguous Filename Expansion

x

Quoting Special Characters

x

INVESTIGATION 1: ABSOLUTE / RELATIVE / RELATIVE-TO-HOME PATHNAMES

X


Perform the Following Steps:


  1. X


INVESTIGATION 2: FILENAME EXPANSION

x

Perform the following steps:
  1. X

INVESTIGATION 3: QUOTING SPECIAL CHARACTERS

x


Perform the Following Steps:
  1. X



LINUX PRACTICE QUESTIONS

The purpose of this section is to obtain extra practice to help with your assignment #1, quizzes, your midterm, and your final ezam.

Here is a link to the MS Word Document of ALL of the questions displayed below but with extra room to answer on the document to simulate a quiz:

https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~murray.saul/uli101/uli101_week3_practice.docx

Your instructor may take-up these questions during class. It is up to the student to attend classes in order to obtain the answers to the following questions. Your instructor will NOT provide these answers in any other form (eg. e-mail, etc).


Review Questions:

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  2. X
  3. X
  4. X
  5. X
  6. X
  7. X
  8. X