Assessment: Creating Things (in the shell)

Oct 2, 2014 • Brent Shambaugh

Quiz based on http://software-carpentry.org/v5/novice/shell/02-create.html

Question (1)

Complete the following steps:

  • Show the current directory
  • Create a sub-directory
  • List the sub-directories contents
  • Delete the sub-directory

Select one or more correct ways:

a) pwd, mkdir sub_directory_name, ls sub_directory_name, rm -r sub_directory_name
b) pwd, mkdir sub_directory_name, ls sub_directory_name, rmdir sub_directory_name
c) pwd, mkdir sub_directory_name, ls sub_directory_name, rm sub_directory_name
d) pwd, mkdir sub_directory_name, ls sub_directory_name, del sub_directory_name
e) pwd, md sub_directory_name, ls sub_directory_name, rm -r sub_directory_name

Question (2)

Order the following steps so that a new file containing text is created in nano, saved in a subdirectory, and later deleted.

a) nano filename.txt
b) ctrl + O
c) rm filename.txt
d) cd dir
e) mkdir dir
f) cp filename ./dir
g) type text in nano