Sams Teach Yourself Shell Programming in 24 Hours, Second Edition

Hour 4

1:	Which of the following are absolute pathnames? Which are relative? /usr/local/bin ../../home/ranga docs/book/ch01 /
A1:	(a) and (d) are absolute pathnames. (b) and (c) are relative pathnames.
2:	What is the output of the pwd command after the following sequence of cd commands have been issued? $ cd /usr/local $ cd bin $ cd ../../tmp $ cd
A2:	The pwd command will output the full path to your home directory.
3:	What command should be used to copy the directory /usr/local to /opt/pgms?
A3:	The following command will work: cp -r /usr/local /opt/pgms
4:	What command(s) should be used to move the directory /usr/local to /opt/pgms?
A4:	The following commands will work: cp -r /usr/local /opt/pgms ; rm -r /usr/local
5:	Given the following listing ...