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Question 1

“grep” stands for

Answer 1

Global Regular Expression Print

Question 2

grep pattern file

Answer 2

Search for “pattern” in “file”

Question 3

grep -r pattern directory

Answer 3

Search recursively for “pattern” in “directory”

Question 4

locate name

Answer 4

Find files and directories by “name”

Question 5

find /home/john -name ‘prefix*’

Answer 5

Find files in “/home/john” that start with “prefix” (* is a wildcard)

Question 6

find /home -size +100M

Answer 6

Find files larger than 100MB in “home”

Question 7

whereis program

Answer 7

Display the location of the binary, source and manual page files of “program”

Question 8

which program

Answer 8

Display the path of the executable that would run if “program” is executed