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Test 1. Basic UNIX commands

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Try to answer the following questionaire using UNIX commands:

1. What time is it?
   

2. In which day of the week was your birthday this year? And in the year you were born?
   

3. Type the command:
       % sleep 10 &
   Now, try to abort the execution before it finishes
   

4. What does the command "which" do?
   

5. Check the meaning of the option "-p" of the command "cp"
   

6. Check the meaning of the command "ls -1R /"
   

7. Print on the screen the content of the filename "/etc/passwd"
   

8. Save the following file in your current working directory and uncompress it
   

9. Type this command:
       % mkdir test1; cd test1
      What will the command "cd ../test1" produce?
      And the command "cd ././././."?
   

10. How much time did you need to do this test?

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