Question

1. Move the file “nfile2” into the “unix” directory.

2. Copy the file “nfile1” into the “java” directory.

3. Show how you would create the files “test1”, “test2”, & “test3” in the “test” directory to ensure that they have the same file creation date/time.

4. From the ~ folder, use the * and then the [ ] wildcard procedures to list all the files in the “test” directory.

5. From the directory structure above, give an example of a relative path & an absolute path.

6. Use the ‘zip’ utility to compress the ‘labs.tar’ file to get the archive file labs.zip. Show how you can uncompress the zip file that was created.

7. Use the gzip utility to compress the archive file labs.tar to get the file labs.tar.gz. Show two(2) ways that you can retrieve the original contents from the labs.tar.gz file.

Answer 1

Q1. Move the file “nfile2” into the “unix” directory.
moving file into a directory we will use the mv command as below
mv file_name path_of_directory

mv nfile2  unix/

Q2. Copy the file “nfile1” into the “java” directory.
to copy file we will use th cp commond same as mv command the only difference is we will use cp instead of mv

cp nfile1 java/

Q3. Show how you would create the files “test1”, “test2”, & “test3” in the “test” directory to ensure that they have the same file creation date/time.

We can do this in multiple ways.

Option 1.

go to the test directory using the command below :
cd test

After this execute touch command to create multiple files at a time as given below.

touch test1 test2 test3

Option 2

Specify the file while creating a new file using touch.

syntax: touch dir_path/file_name 

command: touch test/test1 test/test2 test/test3

in the above command, we are creating test1, test2, test3 files in the test directory.

Q4. From the ~ folder, use the * and then the [ ] wildcard procedures to list all the files in the “test” directory.
we are firest going on directory using command change directory cd
after that listing all files in tat directory using command ls [a-z]* in bracket we are specify the range a-z

cd test
ls [a-z]*

Q5. From the directory structure above, give an example of a relative path & an absolute path.

absolute path is that which specify the location from root (/) path
for example suppose test directory is on Desktop then it's relative path will

/home/abhi/Desktop/test​​​​​​​

In the above path abhi is user. so in your case it might be anything.

relative path is a path from present working directory. suppose if we are on desktop the relative path will

Desktop/test

Q6. Use the ‘zip’ utility to compress the ‘labs.tar’ file to get the archive file labs.zip. Show how you can uncompress the zip file that was created.

zip command is used to copress and unzip command is used to uncompress.

zip labs.zip labs.tar

unzip labs.zip

Q7.  Use the gzip utility to compress the archive file labs.tar to get the file labs.tar.gz. Show two(2) ways that you can retrieve the original contents from the labs.tar.gz file.

gzip command creates the compress file and delete the original file.
command to compress:

gzip labs.tar

Uncompress using gzip:

Way1:

gzip -d labs.tar.gz

Way2:

tar xvzf file.tar.gz