IT 244 Chapter 2

3. What command is used to display text or variable values on the terminal?
5. What do we call a piece of information that is stored in memory?
7. Info pages that are accessed using the info command
10. Whats the name of the user interface that accepts your inputs and passes to the kernel?
12. In modern Linux systems,where is the desktop environment typically loaded?
14. What are the letters called that come after a command that start with a "-"?
16. The most common form of documentation for Linux commands.
18. Linux command that displays page-by-page information about another command.
19. What kind of quotation marks help prevent the shell from interpreting ALL metacharacters by their special meanings?
20. The prefix of these letters when a "--" is included

1. The command that provides assistance on commands that don't have manual nor info pages.
2. Whats the most common login type in Linux terminals?
4. The key combinations used to access a terminal device vary in terms of the last key (three keys total), but the first two stay constant, what are the first two keys? (add + between them)
6. Whats the default shell used in most Linux systems?
8. What is the core component of an operating system known as?
9. Name the Linux command used to display the current time and date.
11. The shell metacharacter used to reference a variable. (spell it out)
13. Whats the name of the "channel" in a computer operating system that allows you to access the kernel?
15. What are the parameters that tailor a command to your needs called?
17. Name the Linux command used to switch to another user account, commonly to root.