Intro to Bash (Activity)
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Title |
Bash Activity |
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Overview |
Students issue commands and observer their results. |
Prerequisites |
None |
Learning Objectives |
After successfully completing this activity, the learner should be able to:
Use a bash terminal to...
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Process Skills Practiced |
Background
Directions
Filesystem
Run each statement below in a bash terminal. Then answer the questions below (or as you go).
ls touch f1 ls mv f1 f2 ls cp f2 f1 ls rm f2 ls mkdir d1 mv f1 d1 ls ls d1 pwd cd d1 pwd ls cd .. pwd ls rm d1 # fails rm -r d1
- What does `ls` display?
- What does `mv A B` do if `B` ___is not___ a directory?
- What does `mv A B` do if `B` is a directory?
- What does `cp A B` do if `B` ___is not___ a directory?
- What does `rm A` do if `A` is a file?
- What does `mkdir A` do?
- What does `pwd` display?
- What does `ls A` display if `A` is a directory?
- What does `cd A` do?
- What does `cd ..` do?
- What does `..` mean in `cd ..`?
- When do you use `rm -r A` instead of `rm A`?
Getting Help
Run each statement below in a bash terminal. Then answer the questions below (or as you go).
man man man # Press `space` to page down, `b` to go back, `q` to quit. man ls man cd # Unexpected result. help cd
- What does `man` do?
- What does `help` do?
- Use `man` to confirm answers in previous section.
Deliverables
Answer to questions.
Assessment
Comments
ACM BoK Area & Unit(s) |
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ACM BoK Topic(s) |
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Difficulty |
Beginner |
Estimated Time to Complete |
20-30 min |
Environment / Materials |
Bash shell |
Author(s) |
Stoney Jackson |
Source | |
License |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License |