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Revision as of 09:50, 13 January 2020
Contents
ADVANCED UNIX / LINUX FILE MANAGEMENT
Main Objectives of this Practice Tutorial
- Understand the difference between absolute / relative / relative-to-home pathnames
- Become productive using various pathname types for Unix/Linux File Management
- Understand the following Ambiguous Filename expansion (FNE) Symbols: * / ? / [ ] / [! ]
- Become productive using FNE for Unix/Linux File Management
- Understanding quotation symbols: Backslash \ , single quotes ' ' , double quotes " "
- Understand the purpose of quoting special characters for File Management and issuing Linux commands
Tutorial Reference Material
Course Notes |
Pathname Type / Filename Expansion / Quoting Reference |
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Course Notes:
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Pathname Types
Ambiguous Filename Expansion Symbols
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Quotation Symbols | Instructional Videos:
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Pathname Types
A pathname is a fully-specified location of a unique filename within the file system.
The concept of a pathname relates to every operating system including Unix, Linux, MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Apple-Macintosh, etc.
Absolute / Relative / Relative-To-Home Pathnames
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Ambiguous Filename Expansion=
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Quoting Special Characters
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INVESTIGATION 1: ABSOLUTE / RELATIVE / RELATIVE-TO-HOME PATHNAMES
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- Perform the Following Steps:
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INVESTIGATION 2: FILENAME EXPANSION
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- Perform the following steps:
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INVESTIGATION 3: QUOTING SPECIAL CHARACTERS
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- Perform the Following Steps:
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LINUX PRACTICE QUESTIONS
The purpose of this section is to obtain extra practice to help with your assignment #1, quizzes, your midterm, and your final ezam.
Here is a link to the MS Word Document of ALL of the questions displayed below but with extra room to answer on the document to simulate a quiz:
https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~murray.saul/uli101/uli101_week3_practice.docx
Your instructor may take-up these questions during class. It is up to the student to attend classes in order to obtain the answers to the following questions. Your instructor will NOT provide these answers in any other form (eg. e-mail, etc).
Review Questions:
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