sudo for elevated privileges in Linux CLI - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the command to run apt update with elevated privileges.

Linux CLI

sudo [1]

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

Aapt-update

Bupdate apt

Capt update

Dupdate

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Putting update before apt.

Using a hyphen in apt-update.

Omitting the package manager command.

The correct command is sudo apt update to run the update with elevated privileges.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the command to edit the /etc/hosts file with elevated privileges using nano editor.

Linux CLI

sudo [1] /etc/hosts

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

Aedit

Bvi

Copen

Dnano

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using edit which is not a valid command.

Using open which is not a terminal editor.

Using vi if unfamiliar with it.

Use sudo nano /etc/hosts to edit the hosts file with administrator rights using the nano editor.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to list files in /root directory with elevated privileges.

Linux CLI

sudo ls [1] /root

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

A-la

B-a

C-l

D-al

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using only -l or -a alone.

Using -al which also works but is not the expected answer here.

Omitting options.

The correct option is -la to list all files with details. It combines -l and -a options.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to create a command that installs curl package using apt with elevated privileges and automatically confirms prompts.

Linux CLI

sudo apt [1] curl [2]

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

Ainstall

B-y

Cremove

D-f

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using remove instead of install.

Omitting the -y flag and getting stuck on prompts.

Using -f which forces fix but is not for confirmation.

Use install to add the package and -y to auto-confirm prompts.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to create a command that shows the last 10 lines of /var/log/syslog file with elevated privileges and continuously updates the output.

Linux CLI

sudo [1] [2] /var/log/syslog [3]

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

Atail

B-f

C-n 10

Dhead

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using head instead of tail.

Omitting -f and missing live updates.

Using wrong order of options.

Use tail to view the end of the file, -n 10 to show last 10 lines, and -f to follow updates.