Command line

Exercises for the command line interface module

How-to

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Each exercise is described on this page.

Overall description of the exercises

Exercise 1 - The terminal

Open and close a terminal window. Learn the shortcuts to open/close new tabs Use the exit command as well.

What do the following key strokes?

• Ctrl + c
• Ctrl + l
• Ctrl + k

Exercise 2 - File structure

Use the commands ls, tree, cd and pwd and navigate into the file sturcture.

What does this command do?

• cd
• cd -
• cd ..

Use some options with ls

• ls -l
• ls -h
• ls -a

Can you combine them?

Use the command mkdir to create folders

Go to ex2 folder and create the following structure: src/main/java/tech.weignite/api/services and src/test/java/tech.weignite/api/services

Exercise 3 - File manipulation

use touch to create empty files and rm to delete them. Delete some folders.

Exercise 4 - Redirections

Go to ex4 folder and do the following:

Try cat > test.txt, type some characters, new lines with return, terminate input with ctrl+d Do you see the difference with cat >> test.txt ?

Try cat test.txt > new_test.txt and after cat test.txt >> new_test.txt. What is the difference between > and >>?

Use | and sort to sort the unsorted.txt file.