CMIT 391
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What directories are in your PATH?


What aliases do you have?


What commands might have something to do with WAV files?

What commands might have something to do with MIDI files?


Use the date command to find out how many seconds have passed since
Time began on Unix systems (Jan 1 1970).  Hint: read the man page or
the usage message to find out how.

date reads/sets the software clock.
hwclock reads/sets the hardware CMOS clock.  At boot, the software
clock is set by the hardware clock, which otherwise is unused.
How close are the two clocks?


What is the location, size, and file type of the bash command?
Who is the owner of that file?
Users have what permissions on this file?
What inode is it?
What version is it?
What libraries does it use?
How many lines is the man page of bash? (the output of man can be piped to wc)
Where is bash's man page file?
What kind of file is it?
Make a copy of it, uncompress it with gunzip.  What kind of file is itnow?  
  How many lines is it?


What is the location, size, and file type of the passwd command?
Who is the owner of that file?
Users have what permissions on this file?
What inode is it?
What libraries does it use?



What runlevel is the system in?
How many 'S' startup scripts are in the current runlevel's rc
directory?  What kind of files are these?  
How many files are in the init.d directory?



In /etc :
Which is the largest file and what's its size?
  The smallest and its size?
  *How many directories are there?
  *Which files do users have no read access?

Using echo and file globbing of the files in /etc:
What filenames start with i

How many filenames contain a .

What files have an h in their names

What files have a capital letter in their name (maybe difficult)

What files have a digit in their name

What filenames start with a vowel and end with a vowel

What filenames are 5 letters long

What filenames are 5 characters long