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This command searches for text characters in a binary file and output them to the screen.
What is a string command?
A series of identifiers following a dot ( . ) at the end of a filename, used to denote the type of the file; the filename extension .txt denotes a text file.
What is a filename extension?
The files that represent the same data as other files.
What is a linked file?
A Linux command that searches files for patterns of characters using regular expression metacharacters.
The user-friendly identifier given to a file.
What is a filename?
A linux command used to display (or concatenate) the entire contents of a text file to the screen.
What is a cat command?
A Linux command that displays the file type of a specified filename.
What is a file command?
A Linux command used to display the contents of a file in octal format.
What is od command
A variant of the grep command that does not allow the use of regular expressions.
What is fgrep command?
A special file on the filesystem used to organize other files into a logical tree structure.
What is a directory?
A command that compares the contents of text files to identify any difference
What is a diff command?
A variant of the grep command used to search files for patterns, using extended regular expressions.
What is egrep command?
A Linux command used to list the files in a given directory.
What is ls command?
A Linux command used to display the current directory in the directory tree.
What is pwd command?
An alias for the ls –l command; it gives a long file listing.
What is an ll command?
What is the full pathname to a certain file or directory starting from the root directory.
What is absolute pathname?
A file that stores information in a readable text format.
What is a text file?
A Linux command used to change the current directory in the directory tree.
What is cd command?
The joining of text together to make one larger whole. In Linux, words and strings of text are joined together to form a displayed file.
What is concatenation?
A Linux command that displays a file on the screen, beginning with the last line of the file and ending with the first line of the file.
What is tac command?
A file that can be executed by the Linux operating system to run in memory as a process and perform a useful function.
What is a executable program?
A directory that resides within another directory in the directory tree.
What is a subdirectory?
A common text editor used within GUI environments.
What is gedit editor?
A Linux command used to display a text file page-by-page on the terminal screen; users can then use the cursor keys to navigate the file.
What is less command?
A Linux command used to display a text file page-by-page and line-by-line on the terminal screen.
What is more command?