CS253 Midterm 1 Review Guide
One page of multiple choice, 8 questions
Rest is short answer
Need to know symbols BASH uses. *, &, $ (for variables), " and ', > >> 2> 2>> <
Regular expressions for grep. ., [ ], ^, $, *
Up to 10 pages of notes is allowed, 8.5 by 11 both sides
There are no questions which are purely from the book. A lot of the questions require you to know how a Linux system functions in general. Creativity and reasoning will go a long way toward a good score.
Commands which might appear somewhere on the test:
- cd
- pwd
- ls
- who
- cat
- ssh
- export
- grep
- find
- w
- file
- mv
- man (a manual reading question)
- chmod
- fg
- killall
- ps
- last (Added after class was over)
Pipes are mentioned in multiple questions, so be familiar with how to use these.