Linux Fundamentals part 1

• Research: What year was the first release of a Linux operating system?

1991

• If we wanted to output the text "TryHackMe", what would our command be?

echo TryHackMe

• What is the username of who you're logged in as on your deployed Linux machine?

tryhackme

• On the Linux machine that you deploy, how many folders are there?

4

• Which directory contains a file? 

folder4

• What is the contents of this file?

Hello World

• Use the cd command to navigate to this file and find out the new current working directory. What is the path?

/home/tryhackme/folder4

• Use grep on "access.log" to find the flag that has a prefix of "THM". What is the flag?

THM{ACCESS}

• Use the cd command to navigate to this file and find out the new current working directory. What is the path?

/home/tryhackme/folder4

• If we wanted to run a command in the background, what operator would we want to use?

&

• If I wanted to replace the contents of a file named "passwords" with the word "password123", what would my command be?

echo password123 > passwords

• Now if I wanted to add "tryhackme" to this file named "passwords" but also keep "passwords123", what would my command be

echo tryhackme >> passwords