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Unit 9: File System Commands

7. Explicate the files used to hold accounting information. notes
8. Analyze different fields used in a passwd entry.

9. Identify the main factors that are to be considered while sharing files or other resource with
a small number of users.
10. The ls command, used to view lists of files in any directory to which a user has execute
permission, has many interesting options. Comment.

answers: self assessment

1. permissions 2. identification
3. numeric GID 4. text file
5. continuously 6. HOME
7. Processes 8. Group ID

9. Group 10. Value
11. ‘ . ‘ (period). 12. Ls
13. Root 14 bash

15. single

9.7 further readings

Books Brian Ward, How Linux Works, No Starch Press.
Christopher Negus, Linux Bible, Wiley.

Dee-Ann LeBlan and Richard K. Blum, Linux for Dummies.
Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love and Arnold Robbins,
Linux in a Nutshell, O’Reilly Media.

Wale Soyinka, Linux Administration: A Beginner’s Guide, McGraw-Hill Osborne
Media.

Online links http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/
http://linux.about.com/od/linux101/a/desktop11.htm
http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/17997-what-is-a-linux-
shell

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