Host Based Forensics Toolkit

Question 1

What is the comand for Listing files?

Answer 1

ls

Question 2

What does the “ls” comand do?

Answer 2

It lists files.

Question 3

What is the comand to list with hidden files?

Answer 3

ls -a

Question 4

What does the “ls -a” comand do?

Answer 4

It includes hidden files.

Question 5

What is the comand to list with Detials?

Answer 5

ls -l

Question 6

What does the “ls -l” comand do?

Answer 6

It does detailed listing.

Question 7

What is the comand for detailed list including human readable files?

Answer 7

ls -lh

Question 8

What does the “ls -lh” comand do?

Answer 8

Detailed list including human readable files.

Question 9

What is the comand to reverse order the list?

Answer 9

ls -r

Question 10

What does the “ls -r” comand do?

Answer 10

It reverses the display order of the list.

Question 11

What is the comand to Change directory?

Answer 11

cd <dir></dir>

Question 12

What does the “cd (dir)(/dir)” comand do?

Answer 12

Changes to a specific directory.

Question 13

What does “<dir></dir>” mean?

Answer 13

Directory.

Question 14

What does the “cd ~” comand do?

Answer 14

It goes to the Home Directory.

Question 15

What is the comand to go to the Home Directory?

Answer 15

cd ~

Question 16

What does the “cd ../..” comand do?

Answer 16

Goes 2 directories up.

Question 17

What is the comand to go 2 directories up?

Answer 17

cd ../..

Question 18

What is an absolute file path?

Answer 18

It is the full file path where we want to go.

Question 19

What is an example of an absolute file path?

Answer 19

cd /home/cain/downloads

Question 20

What type of example is this file path “cd /home/cain/downloads”?

Answer 20

Absolute file path.

Question 21

What is a relative file path?

Answer 21

It is the file path starting where you are currently.

Question 22

What is an example of a relative file path?

Answer 22

Staring in “/home/caine”
to get to downloads
“cd downloads”.

Question 23

What does “..” comand do?

Answer 23

Moves up a directory.

Question 24

What comand would you use to get from “/home/caine/downloads/PCAP” and get to “/home/caine”?

Answer 24

cd ../..

Question 25

What is the comand to copy a directory?

Answer 25

cp (source) (destination)

Question 26

what does the "cp (source) (destination)" comand do?

Answer 26

It copies the directory and moves it to the destination.

Question 27

What is the comand to remove a directory?

Answer 27

rm (target) rmdir (target)

Question 28

What does the "rm (target)" and "rmdir (target)" do?

Answer 28

Removes a directory.

Question 29

What is the comand to create a directory?

Answer 29

mkdir (directory name)

Question 30

What does the "mkdir (directory name)" comand do?

Answer 30

Creates a directory.

Question 31

What is the comand to move a directory?

Answer 31

mv (source) (destination)

Question 32

What does the "mv (source) (destination)" comand do?

Answer 32

Move a directory.

Question 33

What does the "man" comand do?

Answer 33

It displays all information on a command. Its the manual.

Question 34

What comand displays the information on a comand?

Answer 34

man (command name)

Question 35

What is the comand to concatonate a file?

Answer 35

cat (filename)

Question 36

What does the "cat (filename)" comand do?

Answer 36

Concatenate files.

Question 37

What does concatenate mean?

Answer 37

To merge things together.

Question 38

What is the comand to display the contents of a file by page?

Answer 38

less (filename)

Question 39

What does the "less (filename)" comand do?

Answer 39

Shows the contents of a file page by page.

Question 40

What does the "grep" comand do?

Answer 40

It searches for patterns in a file. Outputs a file.

Question 41

What comand searches for patterns in a file?

Answer 41

grep

Question 42

What does the "find" comand do?

Answer 42

It searches for files.

Question 43

What comand searches for files?

Answer 43

find

Question 44

What does the "pwd" comand do?

Answer 44

Prints your current directory.

Question 45

What comand prints your current directory?

Answer 45

pwd

Question 46

What does the "clear" comand do?

Answer 46

Clears the terminal.

Question 47

What comand clears the terminal?

Answer 47

clear

Question 48

How can you move between comands?

Answer 48

Using the up and down arrows.

Question 49

rwx are?

Answer 49

The permissions of a file.

Question 50

What number system do file permissions use?

Answer 50

Octal

Question 51

What is the Read number?

Answer 51

4

Question 52

What is the Write number?

Answer 52

2

Question 53

What is the Execute number?

Answer 53

1

Question 54

What does the "chmod" comand do?

Answer 54

It changes the file permissions.

Question 55

What is the comand that changes the file permissions?

Answer 55

chmod

Question 56

What is the outcome of "chmod 764 text.txt" comand?

Answer 56

Owner has rwx permissions. Group has rw permissions. Other has r permissions.

Question 57

What does the "<" comand do?

Answer 57

Takes an input from a file.

Question 58

What comand takes an input from a file?

Answer 58

<

Question 59

What does the ">" comand do?

Answer 59

Outputs to a file.

Question 60

What comand outputs to a file?

Answer 60

>

Question 61

What does the "|" comand do?

Answer 61

Joins commands together.

Question 62

What comand Joins commands together?

Answer 62

|

Question 63

What does the "ls -l | grep downloads > ls.txt" comand do?

Answer 63

It takes the detailed listing and output downloads and puts it into ls.txt.

Question 64

What are two common editors?

Answer 64

vi nano