Viewing Stuff on the Command Line Practice Exercises

Getting Started

  1. Log onto the server
  2. Paste the following commands into your terminal window. Make sure you don’t include the backticks!
    • mkdir ~/data/practice_directory
    • cp -r /mnt/data/coriell_bioinformatics_server_lessons/coriell_server_lessons/server_basics/practice_directory/. ~/data/practice_directory/
    • cd ~/data/practice_directory/

Questions

  1. List all the files and folders you see.
  2. What are file sizes of the files and folders in the directory in bytes?
  3. Are there any hidden files?