Terminal and Friends

Question 1

Where are terminals available?

Answer 1

Terminals are available on all operating systems.

Question 2

what does a terminal allow you to do?

Answer 2

terminals allow you to have a fine grained control over your computer

Question 3

What are the 3 primary reasons terminals exist

Answer 3

1. more fine grained control
2. automation and programmability
3. common interface across all operating systems

Question 4

List the Command…
this command lists all the files in the current folder

Answer 4

ls

Question 5

List the Command…
moves you around in files

Answer 5

cd

Question 6

List the Command…
moves files, can also rename a file

Answer 6

mv

Question 7

List the Command…
makes a new folder

Answer 7

mkdir

Question 8

List the Command…
deletes a folder

Answer 8

rmdir

Question 9

List the Command…
creates new files

Answer 9

touch

Question 10

List the Command…
copies files

Answer 10

cp

Question 11

List the Command…
removes files

Answer 11

rm

Question 12

List the Command…
gets a basic description of a command

Answer 12

whatis

Question 13

List the Command…
gets all the information of a command

Answer 13

man

Question 14

what commands are potentially destructive commands

Answer 14

rmdir, rm, mv