Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to:

• View information about your machine and operating system.

• Determine the amount of free disk space.

• Find a file's type.

• Find out who is logged on.

• View and monitor processes.

• Kill a process.

• Mount and unmount drives at the command line and in Gnome.

• Create and delete directories.

• Create, copy, move, and delete files.

• Use file command to locate a file.

• Use the grep command to find text in a file.

• Use the head and tail commands to view the beginning and end of a file.

• Determine file and directory ownerships and permissions.

• Change ownerships.

• Change permissions.

• Set default permissions for a group in Gnome.