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SLE201v15 Lab Exercise 3.4

This document provides instructions for navigating the file system and listing directory contents using common Linux commands like cd, pwd, and ls. It has the user change directories to locations like /tmp, their home directory, and /usr/share/doc. They then use ls with various options to view the contents of the current directory, including hidden files, file permissions, sizes and classification indicators for different file types.

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SLE201v15 Lab Exercise 3.4

This document provides instructions for navigating the file system and listing directory contents using common Linux commands like cd, pwd, and ls. It has the user change directories to locations like /tmp, their home directory, and /usr/share/doc. They then use ls with various options to view the contents of the current directory, including hidden files, file permissions, sizes and classification indicators for different file types.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Administration

3- 4 Change Directories and List Directory Contents

Description:

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In this exercise, you learn how to use the cd, pwd, and ls commands, change the

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current directory and list the directory contents.

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Task 1: Open a terminal session

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1. On server1, as the user tux, open a terminal by clicking on the Activities menu and
type:
terminal

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When the Terminal icon appears, click on it to start a terminal session

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Task 2: Navigate Around the File System
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1. From the tux user’s home directory, describe what directories the following characters
refer to:
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..
2. Change to the /tmp directory by entering:
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cd /tmp
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3. Display the name of the current directory by entering:


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pwd
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4. Change to the home directory by entering:


cd ~
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5. Display the name of the current directory by entering:


pwd
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6. Change to the /usr/share/doc directory by entering:


cd /usr/share/doc
7. Display the name of the current directory by entering:
pwd
8. Change back to tux’s home directory by entering:
cd -

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9. Display the name of the current directory by entering:
pwd

Task 3: List Directory Contents


1. Display the content of the current directory by entering:
ls

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2. Display the content of the current directory, including the hidden files, by entering:

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ls -a

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3. View the permissions and the file sizes of all the files in the current directory by
entering:

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ls -la
4. List the contents of the current directory and display the classification indicators for the
various file types with:

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ls -lF

Note what file types the various indicators match up with, */=>@|. For example,
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directories will have a / character appended to the end indicating a directory. What
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does the * character indicate?

Hint: You can find the answers to the above by using the info ls command, and
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searching for the phrase classify.


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Summary:
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In this exercise, you the file system and displayed the content of the current directory.
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