LPI Exam Questions

What does the output show you?

You enter the command date +%M. What does the output show you?

A.
the current year

B.
the current month

C.
the current hour

D.
the current minute

E.
the current second

Explanation:

date command displays the current date and time information as well as we can set new date and
time to system by supplying -s option. To display time: date +%T To display Minute: date +%M To
display Month : date +%m%% a literal % %a locale’s abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat) %A
locale’s full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday) %b locale’s abbreviated month
name (Jan..Dec) %B locale’s full month name, variable length (January..December) %c locale’s
date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989) %C century (year divided by 100 and truncated to
an integer) [00-99] %d day of month (01..31) %D date (mm/ dd / yy ) %e day of month, blank
padded ( 1..31) %F same as %Y-%m-%d %g the 2-digit year corresponding to the %V week
number %G the 4-digit year corresponding to the %V week number %h same as %b %H hour
(00..23) %I hour (01..12) %j day of year (001..366) %k hour ( 0..23) %l hour ( 1..12) %m month
(01..12) %M minute (00..59) %n a newline %N nanoseconds
(000000000..999999999) %p locale’s upper case AM or PM indicator (blank in many locales) %P
locale’s lower case am or pm indicator (blank in many locales) %r time, 12-hour ( hh:mm:ss
[AP]M) %R time, 24-hour ( hh:mm ) ond %t a horizontal tab %T time, 24-hour ( hh:mm:ss ) %U
week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53) %V week number of year with
Monday as first day of week (01..53) %W week number of year with Monday as first day of week
(00..53) %x locale’s date representation (mm/ dd / yy ) %X locale’s time representation
(%H:%M:%S) %y last two digits of year (00..99) %Y year (1970…) %z RFC-2822 style numeric
timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard exten – sion )
%Z time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is deter- minable Q105
When you are looking for brief information about a program in your PATH with its associated man
pages, you would use …

A. which
B. whereis
C. locate
D. where

Whereis – locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command Syntax: whereis
[options] command Options: -b Search only for binaries -m Search only for manual section -s
Search only for sources.