Practice of basic UNIX commands (step by step)!!

• Find today's date
  $ date
  
• Make a directory called personal, to keep ur personal files
  $ mkdir personal
  
• Check whether the directory is made by the list command ls
  $ ls
  
• Make a directory called ta, to keep ur files to be submitted to ur TA.
  $ mkdir ta
  
• Check whether the directory is made by the list command ls
  $ ls
  
• Find out which directory you are in!This will display ur home directory
  $ pwd
  
• Now change your current directory to ta
  $ cd ta
  
• U have a got an essence of what mkdir, ls, pwd ,cd ,date is! Check the manual pages for more information.
  $ man ls
  (Type h for help, q to quit)
  
• Similarly check man for above commands and more, cat, grep, wc, echo, rm, cp,vi
  
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  You will find two files, READ_ME which tells u what to do, Solutions are provided in the file basics_sol.
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