October 2001
Intermediate to advanced
1040 pages
22h 50m
English
| 1: | What process puts the login prompt on your screen? |
| 2: | What process assigns values to HOME, LOGNAME, and PATH? |
| 3: | How do you know what shell you are using? |
| 4: | Where is your login shell assigned? (What file?) |
| 5: | Explain the difference between the /etc/profile and .profile file. Which one is executed first? |
| 6: | Edit your .profile file as follows:
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| 1: | Make a directory called wildcards.
Cd to that directory and type at the prompt:
touch ab abc a1 a2 a3 all a12 ba ba.1 ba.2 filex filey AbC ABC ABc2 abc ... |