Getting Started with Linux Fundamentals

Instructions

1. Review the contents of the student user home directory.

   [student@workstation ~]$ tree
   ...output omitted...
   ├── Downloads
   │   ├── fedora.md
   │   ├── files.txt
   │   ├── help.md
   │   ├── meeting.txt
   │   └── notes.txt
   ├── Music
   ...output omitted...
   
   8 directories, 5 files

2. Copy all the files in the Downloads directory that end in the letter d to the Documents directory.

   [student@workstation ~]$ cp D*ds/*d Documents

   1. Confirm that the fedora.md and help.md files have been copied.

      [student@workstation ~]$ ls Documents
      fedora.md  help.md

3. Copy all the files in the Downloads directory that start with f and end in txt to the Documents directory.

   [student@workstation ~]$ cp D*ds/f*t Documents

   1. Confirm that the file.txt and files.txt files have been copied.

      [student@workstation ~]$ ls Documents
      fedora.md  files.txt  help.md

4. Use globbing to move only the files.txt and notes.txt files to the Desktop directory.

   [student@workstation ~]$ mv D*ds/?????.* ~/Desktop

   1. Search the Desktop directory and use globbing to confirm that the files.txt and notes.txt files have been moved.

      [student@workstation ~]$ find ~/Desktop -iname ?????.*
      /home/student/Desktop/files.txt
      /home/student/Desktop/notes.txt

5. Use an escape character to create the ex*mple.txt file that contains the string Hello World!.

   [student@workstation ~]$ echo "Hello World!" > Documents/ex\*mple.txt

   1. Confirm the file's name and contents by using a backslash to escape the file name.

      [student@workstation ~]$ cat Documents/ex\*mple.txt
      Hello World!

6. Find all files in the home directory that contain an asterisk (*) character in its name. Use redirection to save the results in the ~/wildcard.txt file. Because the home directory is your current directory, you can use a period (.) to refer to the home directory.

   [student@workstation ~]$ find . -iname "*\**" > wildcard.txt

   1. Review the wildcard.txt file contents.

      [student@workstation ~]$ cat wildcard.txt
      ./Documents/ex*mple.txt