Performing Basic File Management

Introduction

Welcome to the Performing Basic File Management Practice Lab. In this module you will be provided with the instructions and devices needed to develop your hands-on skills.

Learning Outcomes

In this module, you will complete the following exercises:

• Exercise 1 - Perform Basic File Management

After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Log into a Linux System
• Perform basic file management
• Use wildcards for advanced file operations
• Use wildcards to manipulate data in a file
• Use the find command
• Use the tar and cpio commands

Exam Objectives

The following exam objectives are covered in this lab:

• LPI: 103.2 Process text streams using filters
• LPI: 103.7 Search text files using regular expressions
• CompTIA: 2.3 Given a scenario, create, modify, and redirect files.

Lab Duration

It will take approximately 1 hour to complete this lab.

Exercise 1 - Perform Basic File Management

File management is one of the basic tasks to perform while using computers. Linux offers many commands to perform these operations. In this exercise, you will become familiar with these commands.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this exercise, you will be able to:

• Log into a Linux System
• Perform basic file management
• Use wildcards for advanced file operations
• Use wildcards to manipulate data in a file
• Use the find command
• Use the tar and cpio commands