Basic Commands

Question 1

Rename a directory

Answer 1

mv

Question 2

what are the flags in rsync -avz . ~/explorer

Answer 2

a = archive (a quick way of including recursion and keeping everything as it is)
v = verbose (gives you a list of what it copied)
z = compress (good for slow links)

Question 3

how would you mount the virtual box shared directory called blah

Answer 3

sudo mount -t vboxsf blah ~/[my shared directory name]

Question 4

how do you find files that contain the phrase ‘My Word’

Answer 4

grep -rnw ‘/path/to/somewhere/’ -e ‘My Word’