get started for ubuntu

1.    What is the function the terminal consule in linux

GNOME terminal is a terminal emulation application that you can use to perform the following tasks:
Access unix shell in the GNOME environment. A shell is a program that interprets and executes the commands that you type at a command line prompt. When you start GNOME terminal, the application start the default shell that is specifide in your system account. You can switch to a different shell at many time.

2.    Give a suittable command for every tasks perfomed below :

a)    Find out who is on your host computer : who

b)    Change to your home directory : cd~

c)    See what files are in the current directory : ls

d)     Determine the current directory : pwd

e)    Get more information on a command : info

3.    What is different between

a)    Ls –a

b)    Ls-l

c)    Ls-d

d)    Ls-t

4.    Use man command to explore other linux commands listed in activity 5b.Show the output for  each of the commands in your reports.

Man cp

Man mv

Man rmdir

Whoami

Whereis

Which

Locate

Find

Grep

Mkdir

Ls

Cat

Df

Du

Echo

5.    To explore Linux, type one by one all the commands below In your terminal

a.Who

b. Id

c. Usermod

d. pwd

e. ps

f. cd examples

g. ls

6.    Differentiate the differences between the usage of cd command below.