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A Quick Introduction to Unix/exercises1

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Task One

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Change to the bash shell.

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% bash

Task Two

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Use the command pwd. Write down the full path to your home directory.


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% pwd

Task Three

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Look at the image of an example filestructure tree here. Trace and write down the path from the root to the folder ccaastu

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/nfs/fs-i/UM0098/ccaastu

Task Four

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Change your current view to your home directory.

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% cd ~

List all the files with the extension .bat.

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% ls *.bat

How many files are there? ls -1 | wc -l