Linux Chapter 4 – Flashcards

In order to create a hard link, what command must be used?

What command can be used to copy files?

What permission grants a user the ability to open, read, and edit the contents of a file?

What section of a filesystem contains information about the filesystem in general?

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard specifies what directory as containing the Linux kernel and the boot loader configuration files?

In order to set all of the special permissions on a certain file or directory, which command below should be used on a file named filename?

When using the chmod command, the mode rwx can be represented by which number?

The contents of a certain variable in memory can be viewed using which metacharacter below in combination with the echo command?

?Select the mode below that corresponds to setting r-x:

What command below takes a list of arguments specifying the absolute or relative pathnames of files to remove?

The section of an inode that stores permissions is referred to as what?

To copy a directory full of files in Linux, you must tell the cp command that the copy will be ____________________ (involve files and subdirectories too) by using the -r option

In a file's mode, a permission that is unavailable is represented by what character?

When a user creates a file or directory, that user's name and ____________________ becomes the owner and group owner of the file, respectively.

What option, when added to the rm command, is commonly referred to as the -resume option?

What argument can be used with the chmod command to add read permission and remove write permission for a group on a file?

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard specifies what directory as the root user's home directory?

The ____________________ command only searches directories that are listed in a special variable called the PATH variable in the current BASH shell.

Select the command below that utilizes a premade database that contains a list of all the files on a system:

To create a(n) ____________________ link, you use the -s option to the ln command.

____________________ defines a standard set of directories for use by all Linux and UNIX systems, as well as the file and subdirectory contents of each directory.