Day-3 Task: Basic Linux Commands

  • TASK: What is the Linux Command to

1. To view what's written in a file.

- We can use the “cat” command to view what is written in the file

2. To change the access permissions of files.

- For this, we can use the “chmod” command.

    • To check which commands, you have run till now.

- To view the commands that we use till now, we use the “history” command.

4. To remove a directory/ Folder.

- To remove a directory, we use the “rm” command. We use “rm -r” if the directory is nonempty.

5. To create a fruits.txt file and view the content.

- We can use the “touch” command to create a new file and the “cat” command is used to view the content.

6. Add content in fruits.txt (One in each line) - Apple, Mango, Banana, Cherry, Kiwi, Orange, Guava.

  • Vim fruits.txt

  • Add the fruit's name.

7- Show only the top three fruits from the file.

  • To display the top three lines from any file we use the command

“Head -n 3 fruits.txt”

Where -n is a flag to specify the number of lines

8. Show only the bottom three fruits from the file.

- To print the bottom three lines from a file, we use the command “tail -n 3 fruit.txt”

Where -n is a flag, to specify the number of lines.

9. To create another file Colors.txt and to view the content.

- To create a new file and view its contents, we can use "touch" and "cat" commands respectively.

10. Add content in Colors.txt (One in each line) - Red, Pink, White, Black, Blue, Orange, Purple, and Grey.

- To add content in the colours file, we use the “vim” command

11. To find the difference between the fruits.txt and Colors.txt files.

- To find the difference between the two files we use the “diff” command.

Thanks for Reading!