Opening and using the terminal in Linux CLI - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the command to open the terminal on most Linux systems.

Linux CLI

[1]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Aterminal

Bopen-terminal

Cstart-terminal

Dgnome-terminal

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Typing 'open-terminal' or 'start-terminal' which are not valid commands.

Using just 'terminal' which is not a command.

The command 'gnome-terminal' opens the terminal emulator in many Linux desktop environments.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the command to list files and folders in the current directory.

Linux CLI

[1]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Ashow

Bls

Cdir

Dlist

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'list' or 'show' which are not valid Linux commands.

Using 'dir' which works in Windows but is less common in Linux.

The 'ls' command lists files and folders in the current directory in Linux.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to change directory to the home folder.

Linux CLI

cd [1]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A~

B/home

C/root

Dhome

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Typing 'cd home' without slash which causes an error.

Using '/root' which is not the regular user's home.

Using 'cd ~' changes to the current user's home directory. '/home' is a parent folder, 'home' without slash is invalid, and '/root' is the root user's home.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to create a command that shows the current directory path and lists its contents.

Linux CLI

[1] && [2]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Apwd

Bls

Ccd

Decho

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'echo' instead of 'pwd' to show directory.

Using 'cd' which changes directory instead of showing it.

The 'pwd' command shows the current directory path, and 'ls' lists the contents. Using '&&' runs the second command only if the first succeeds.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to create a command that creates a new directory named 'projects', changes into it, and lists its contents.

Linux CLI

[1] projects && [2] projects && [3]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Amkdir

Bcd

Cls

Drmdir

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'rmdir' which deletes directories instead of creating.

Mixing order of commands causing errors.

First, 'mkdir projects' creates the directory. Then 'cd projects' moves into it. Finally, 'ls' lists contents (which will be empty).