File Path Navigation Quiz

Back in 1996 I learned how to install software on my spanking new Linux before really understanding the topography of the ______.

You see, back then, Linux was not the intuitive, user-friendly system it is today. You had to ______ a lot.

It makes sense to explore the Linux ______ from a terminal window...

/bin is the directory that contains ______, that is, some of the applications and programs you can run.

The /boot directory contains files required for ______ your system.

/dev contains ______ files.

/etc is the directory where names start to get ______.

Linux directories that contain data that changes frequently are often referred to as ______

Temporary files are usually placed in the ______ directory

The ______ directory is one of the few directories that can be interacted with without superuser privileges

The ______ directory contains all the files and software installed from snaps

rmdir is used to ______ a directory

The rmdir command cannot remove directories that have ______ in them

The mv command is used to ______ a file to another location or rename it

The touch command is used to create an ______ file

Linux has been around for over _______ years

The ________ character ~ represents the current, logged-on user's home directory.

The _______ command moves you to the specified directory, changing your present working directory location.

The _______ command displays the present working directory, letting you know where you are now.

The /______ directory, however, is a bit of remnant from days gone by. This is where you would manually mount storage devices or partitions. It is not used very often nowadays.

/______ The /______ directory is often where software you compile (that is, you build yourself from source code and do not install from your distribution repositories) sometimes lands. Applications will end up in the //bin directory and libraries in the //lib directory. A slight digression: another place where applications and libraries end up in is /usr/local, When software gets installed here, there will also be /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib directories. What determines which software goes where is how the developers have configured the files that control the compilation and installation process.

/______ /______, like /dev is a virtual directory. It contains information about your computer, such as information about your CPU and the kernel your Linux system is running. As with /dev, the files and directories are generated when your computer starts, or on the fly, as your system is running and things change.

/______ is another new directory. System processes use it to store temporary data for their own nefarious reasons. This is another one of those DO NOT TOUCH folders.

The cost per byte of RAM is approximately $0.0000000043743750, which is about ______ times more expensive than a hard drive.

In the early days of computing, one type of memory was based on dots on a CRT screen and cost approximately $______ per bit.

Linux directories that contain data that changes frequently are often referred to as ______