1 You are the systems administrator for a scientific researc

1. You are the systems administrator for a scientific research company that employs over

100 scientists who write and run Linux programs to analyze their work. All of these

programs are stored in each scientist’ s home directory on the Linux system. One

scientist has left the company, and you are instructed to retrieve any work from that

scientist’ s home directory. When you enter the home directory for that user, you notice

that there are very few files and only two directories (one named Projects and one

named Lab). List the commands that you would use to navigate through this user’ s

home directory and view filenames and file types. If there are any text files, what

commands could you use to view their contents?

Solution

Navigate to the home directory

cd ~

List all files in the directory with complete information

ls -la

Navigate to the projects directory

cd Projects

Find all text files in the Projects directory

find *.txt

Open a text file in nano editor (Ctrl+X to save)

sudo nano myfile.txt

Come back one directory

cd ..

Navigate to Lab directory

cd Lab

Repeat the above steps for the lab directory as well.