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Chapter 1  

======What is the shell?======
A user program that accepts and translates human readable comments to computer language (something the kernel can read and process).

======Decide whether the following sentence is true or false: ======

   1. Linux is a collection of programs and utilities glued together by the bash shell. T
   2. Shell manages files and data. F
   3. Shell manages networks, memory and other resources. F
   4. Linux kernel runs programs and loads them into the memory. T
   5. Bash shell is a poor user interface. F
   6. Bourne Shell is also known as /bin/sh. T
   7. Bash Shell is also known as /bin/bash or /usr/local/bin/bash. T
   8. C Shell offers more C like syntax. T
   9. A few commands are built into the shell. T
  10. Linux file system organised as hierarchy. F
  11. To refer to several files with similar names you need to use wildcards. T
  12. Wildcards increase command typing time. F
  13. Command ls is used to list directories. T
  14. rmdir command will only remove empty directories. T
  15. Everything is file in Linux. T
  16. rm -i filename command will prompts for confirmation.
  17. Linux can run many programs at the same time. T
  18. The bash shell is just a program. T

* Write a command names, which can display the files to the terminal. ls
* Write a command to list details of all files ending in '.perl' in reverse time order. ls -R
* Write a command to list your running programs. ps
* Write a command to list files waiting to be printed. lpq
* Write a command to delete 3 files called file1.txt, file2.txt, and data1.txt.  rmdir file.txt, file2.txt, data1.txt
* Write a command to creates a new sub-directory called 'foo' in /tmp. 
* Write a command to delete the directory called 'foo'. rm foo
* Write a command to read all ls command options.