Quiz 9:Shell Issues


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Question 1: How is the shell related to the kernel?

Question 2: Create an alias to allow you to type 'print filename' when you want to print the named file.

Question 3: Assume you have multiple files with names: ch01 ch02 ch03 ... ch45 where ... indicates all the values between ch03 and ch45. Use metacharacters and write a ls command to list just the files where the last digit is a 4 or a 5.

Question 4: What is the result of command ls ~ ?

Question 5: What is the purpose of the .cshrc file?

Question 6: What does the history command do?

Question 7: How do you bring a process back from the background?

Question 8: What command do you use to suspend a process?