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Exercises 1: Discovering Linux

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Open a LibreOffice document and write down what you have done. Save this document under the name $HOME/exercises/doc/exercise_1.odt. Continue to document you work during this exercise such that at the end of the exercise session you have a document describing all your work.

Exercise 3: Environment variables and shell startup

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Have a look at all environment variables defined (printenv). What are the values of HOME, PATH, LANGUAGE, LOG_NAME?

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Have a look at all environment variables defined (printenv). What are the values of HOME, PATH, LANGUAGE, LOGNAME?

To get the value of an environment variable print it (echo command) with a $ in front (e.g. echo $HOME).

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Now create a new environment variable MY_VARIABLE:

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export MY_VARIABLE=It’s_Me\! and print it. Get rid of it using unset.

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export MY_VARIABLE=It\’s_Me\! and print it. Get rid of it using unset. (You need the "\" to make sure bash does not interpret the characters following the \, you escape the interpretation)

Exercise 4: Redirection and pipes

To each executable 3 input output channels are associated:

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