Chapter 3 - Exploring Linux Filesystems (Crossword)

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Across
  1. 2. the process of using wildcard metacharacters within a command to match multiple files or directories.
  2. 7. a file that contains past system events.
  3. 8. most files on a Linux system that contain configuration information are
  4. 9. a file that represents the same data or is a shortcut to the data in another file.
  5. 11. a user-friendly terminal text editor that uses Ctrl key combinations to perform basic functions
  6. 12. one of the oldest and most popular visual text editors available for UNIX operating systems
  7. 14. simplify commands that specify more than one filename on the command line
  8. 15. the user-friendly identifier given to a file
  9. 16. a special file on the filesystem used to organize other files.
  10. 17. a directory on the filesystem set aside for users to store personal files and information
  11. 18. the full pathname to a certain file or directory starting from the root directory
  12. 19. a directory that resides within another directory in the directory tree.
Down
  1. 1. a series of identifiers following a dot (.) at the end of a filename, used to denote the type of the file; the filename extension .txt denotes a text file.
  2. 3. a text file that contains a list of commands or constructs for the shell to execute in order.
  3. 4. one of the two modes in vi; it allows the user to insert text into the document but does not allow any other functionality.
  4. 5. one of the two modes in vi; it allows a user to perform any available Text-editing task that is not related to inserting text into the document
  5. 6. a file connecting processes on two different computers.
  6. 10. the joining of text together to make one larger whole. In Linux, words and strings of text are joined together to form a displayed file.
  7. 13. the directory that is one level closer to the root directory in the directory tree relative to your current directory.