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 ====== Assignment 1 ======
-**Due August 28, 2018**
+**Due Sept 3, 2019**
-**Turn in the answers to this on canvas in a .txt document**
-====== FURTHER EXERCISES 180823 ======
+**Use a text editor application (do not use TextEdit) to write your answers.**
-===== Exercise1 =====
+**Compile your answers in a .txt document.**
-Explain what these two commands do by executing them and seeing what happens:
+**Turn your answers by uploading your .txt document to CANVAS.**
+===== Question1 =====
+Explain what these two commands do by experimenting with them and seeing what happens:
 <code bash>
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 </code>
-===== Exercise2 =====
+===== Question2 =====
-The grandparent directory: Can you find TWO ways to move into the grandparent directory in a single command? That is, how can you move from\\ ''/Users/erin/Documents/Photos/Selfies/''\\ to\\ ''/Users/erin/Documents/''\\ by executing ''cd'' just once? Find TWO ways to do this. One way should use an absolute path and the other should use a relative path.
+The grandparent directory: Can you find TWO ways to move into the grandparent directory in a single command? That is, how can you move from\\
+''/Users/erin/Documents/Photos/Selfies/''\\
+to\\ ''/Users/erin/Documents/''\\
+by executing ''cd'' just once? Find TWO ways to do this. One way should use an **absolute path** and the other should use a **relative path**.
-===== Exercise3 =====
+===== Question3 =====
-Say, I have several directories within my ''Photos'' directory:
+If I have several directories within my ''Photos'' directory, like so:
 ''/Users/erin/Documents/Photos/Instagram/''\\
 ''/Users/erin/Documents/Photos/NikonPics/''\\
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 ===== Exercise4 =====
-Up to this point, we have used ''ls'' without any arguments. However, ''ls'' can take an argument. See what happens when you give ''ls'' the following types of arguments:
+Up to this point, we have used ''ls'' without any arguments. However, ''ls'' can take an argument. What happens when you give ''ls'' the following types of arguments?:
-  - a directory specified by a relative path
+  - a directory
-  - a directory specified by an absolute path
   - a file
+===== Question5 =====
+Say you have accidentally named a directory with spaces in the name ''Files for Qualifying Exam''
+You try to list the contents of this directory by executing the following command?
+<code>
+$ls Files for Qualifying Exam
+</code>
+However, this doesn't work as expected.
+A. Why doesn't this work? What is the computer trying to do? \\
+B. What is a proper command required to list the contents of this directory?
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 This is just for fun and is not due...
-===== Challenge Question =====
+==== Challenge Question ====
 What do you think the difference is between these...\\
 ''/Users/erinnishimura/Documents/''\\
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 ?
+==== Terminus ====
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