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    This document provides instructions for common Linux commands used to manage users, files, and directories in Ubuntu. Key commands covered include: 1) adduser to add new users, deluser to delete users, and lastlog to check the login history of users. 2) mkdir to create directories, touch to create empty files, cp to copy files, mv to move files between directories, and rm to delete files. 3) Commands take various options like -i for interactive confirmation before overwriting files with cp. The document provides examples of using each command and evaluating the results.

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    This document provides instructions for common Linux commands used to manage users, files, and directories in Ubuntu. Key commands covered include: 1) adduser to add new users, deluser to delete users, and lastlog to check the login history of users. 2) mkdir to create directories, touch to create empty files, cp to copy files, mv to move files between directories, and rm to delete files. 3) Commands take various options like -i for interactive confirmation before overwriting files with cp. The document provides examples of using each command and evaluating the results.

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    CC 216 Operating Systems Jan-Apr 2021

    Ubuntu Lab Manual 2

    Use ubuntu in VirtualBox or Go to: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it/

    Before you start the following command, make sure you are log in as super user to
    have administrator privileges.

    1. Adding or Creating New User

    In order to add new user account, type adduser <username>.


    Type password for new user.
    Re-type password for new user.
    Type details information of users.
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    2. Checking list of users

    Type lastlog
    Give a list of every single user plus the last time they logged in (or "never
    logged in" if that user had not logged in ever).
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    Type command last and evaluate the result.

    3. Deleting user account

    Type deluser
    Enter username that you want to delete
    Evaluate the result.
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    Now, switch back to normal user account in order to avoid deleting or overriding
    system files accidently.

    4. mkdir (make directory)

    To make a subdirectory called linuxstuff in your current working directory type


    mkdir linuxstuff
    Evaluate the result.

    5. Type ls to check all the files or folder under current directory.

    6. Go under linuxstuff directory. cd linuxstuff

    7. Creating files under linuxstuff directory

    Type touch file1


    Type ls
    Type touch file2
    Type ls
    Evaluate the result.
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    8. Displaying message on screen.

    Type echo “This is a test message”;

    9. Writing date to a file.

    Type echo “This is test message for file1” >file1


    Type echo “This is test message for file2” >file2
    Evaluate the result.

    10. Copying file contents.

    Type cp file1 file3


    Copies the contents of file1 into file3. If file3 does not exist, it is created;
    otherwise, file3 is silently overwritten with the contents of file1.
    Evaluate the result.

    Type cp –i file1 file2


    Evaluate the result

    Like above however, since the "-i" (interactive) option is specified, if file3
    exists, the user is prompted before it is overwritten with the contents of file1.

    Try:
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    i. Copy the contents of file1 (into a file named file1) inside of directory
    newdir.

    ii. Copy the contents of the directory linuxstuff. If directory newdir does
    not exist, it is created. Otherwise, it creates a directory named newdir

    11. Moving file to different directory.

    Type mv <filename> <directoryname>


    Type mkdir dir1
    Type mv oridirectoryname/file1 newdir/

    12. Deleting (removing) files or directories

    Type rm <filename>
    Type rm file1
    Type rm –i file2
    Evaluate the answer

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