Questions

1:Which of the following are absolute pathnames? Which are relative?

  1. /usr/local/bin

  2. ../../home/ranga

  3. docs/book/ch01

  4. /

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
3:What command should be used to copy the directory /usr/local to /opt/pgms?
4:What command(s) should be used to move the directory /usr/local to /opt/pgms?
5:Given the following listing for the directory backup, can the rmdir command be used to remove this directory? If not, please give a command that can be used. 
$ ls -a backup
./    ../   sysbak-980322 sysbak-980112

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