010-160: LPI LINUX ESSENTIALS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024/2025

whereis → used to search for programs in restricted locations, such as binary file directories, libraries, and man directories. locate → Searches the system managed database of filenames for files containing the specified string in the filenames. (Search is much faster than the search performed using the 'find' command) updatedb → Updates the system managed database of filenames Displays current working directory → pwd Change into the current user's home directory → cd ~ → → cd $HOME → → Both of these do what Change to the parent directory of the current directory → cd .. 2 0 2 4 /2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit gain Excel! 1 | P a g e | G r a d e A + | 2 0 24 / 2 0 2 5 Change to the etc directory in the root (/) directory → cd /etc Creates a hard link named '' for the file '' → ln Creates a symbolic link named of → ln -s touch → Can be used to update the timestamp of a file or if that file doesn't exist it will create a blank file with the specified name. Will update the timestamp of the specified file if it exists. If it does not exist it will not create a blank file. → touch -c Adds the content "Hey there!" to the specified file. → echo "Hey there!" cat → Displays the contents of a file Opens the vi editor for the file "sample". This will allow you to write text into a file. → vi sample 2 0 2 4 /2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit gain Excel! 1 | P a g e | G r a d e A + | 2 0 24 / 2 0 2 5 Will display the "sample" file's byte count → wc -c sample Displays the number of characters in the "sample" file → wc -m sample Display the number of lines in the "sample" file → wc -l sample Display the word count of the "sample" file → wc -w sample Extracts the first field of the "/etc/pass