Dr. su's quiz

If you are a Unix geek, give Dr. su's quiz a try.

See if you can determine the meaning of each line of Unix commands below. As much as possible, these commands are valid to run on a typical Linux machine (though some of them would require setting up particular files or users).

I hope you enjoy solving Dr. su's quiz as much as I did composing it. Answers will follow in a later post.

Try this site for a hint.

who > horton


tar -cf hat /bin/cat


tar -xf hat


killall -HUP pop


sudo -u grinch mv xmas /mnt/crumpet


echo -e '\e[32meg\x67s h\x61m\e[0m'


su brown -c moo; test -x moo


echo 'rm -f marvin' | at now


echo {One,Two,Red,Blue}' Fish'


cp fox socks/


chown bart:cubbins hat{1..500}


find mulberry -name "it" -exec think {} +


[ -n "$(pgrep -u $(whoami) zoo)" ]


man sleep


case $(date +%u) in [1234567]) uptime;; esac