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Lab 3 — *nix Terminal

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Objectives
  • Navigating the file system
  • Listing files
  • Renaming and moving files
  • Relative paths & absolute paths
  • Running commands
Lab Details
  1. Open a Terminal window.
  2. Create the following folder structure using command line commands: /tmp/lab3. List the commands below:
  3. Using a terminal-based text editor of your choice, create a file /tmp/lab3/hello.txt that contains the message “Hello World!!!!”. List the commands below:
  4. Using command line commands, change the name of the file to cloudLab3.txt. List the commands below:
  5. Using command line commands, copy cloudLab3.txt to a new file named cloudLab3Duplicate.txt. List the commands below:
  6. Delete the cloudLab3Duplicate.txt file using command line commands. List the commands below:
  7. Take a screenshot of this page with your answers filled in for your lab submission.
What did I learn?
  • How to navigate and work with the Unix terminal
  • Execute commands from the terminal