The Workshop is designed to help you anticipate possible questions, review what you've learned, and begin learning how to put your knowledge into practice.
Quiz
1:
What pattern would you use with the rm command to remove the files houseprices.txt, priceless.gif, and car.myprice?
2:
How would you search the file shoecolors.txt for lines containing the word red?
3:
How would you quickly search your entire file system for a file called FedoraNotes.txt?
Answers
A1:
*price*
A2:
grep red shoecolors.txt
A3:
locate FedoraNotes.txt
Activities
Use locate and less to get a listing of all the files of the following types on your system, displayed one page at a time: .txt, .gif, .jpg, and .gz.
Using the techniques learned in this chapter, create a directory called ~/images that contains symbolic links to all .jpg, .gif, .tif, .png, and .xpm files on your system. Then open a file manager window and browse through them!