February 2008: These tests are all badly in need of update.
Some questions are incorrect because of changing technology and others just make no sense in today's IT world.
I do intend to update these, but it's a big project..

Linux Skills Test

Copyright 2002,2003 A.P. Lawrence

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Medium Difficulty

After the following commands:

tar cvf /tmp/file.tar m*
tar rvf /tmp/file.tar  n*

The "file.tar" will contain:

• Only the m* files
• Only the n* files
• Both sets of files in one archive
• Both sets of files in two archives

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