Real Linux Commands for Raspberry Pi: Student Worksheet

Listing Files and Folders

ls -l

Challenge: List the files in your current directory with details like file permissions, size, and date of modification. Test: Can you find which file was modified most recently?

Finding Your Current Directory

pwd

Challenge: Use this command to print your working directory (the folder you're in). Test: Can you navigate to the /home directory and print its path using this command?

Changing Directories

cd

Challenge: Navigate to a directory (e.g., /home/pi/Documents) using this command. Test: Use cd .. to go back one directory. How can you go back two directories in one command?

Creating a New Folder

mkdir new_folder

Challenge: Create a new folder called projects in your home directory. Test: Can you create a folder named data inside projects?

Moving and Renaming Files

mv file.txt new_folder/

Challenge: Move a file called report.txt to the projects folder you created earlier. Test: Can you rename report.txt to summary.txt while moving it to projects?

Copying Files

cp file.txt backup.txt

Challenge: Copy a file called summary.txt to backup_summary.txt. Test: Can you copy the entire projects folder to another folder called backup_projects?

Deleting Files

rm file.txt

Challenge: Delete the backup_summary.txt file from your home directory. Test: How would you remove the entire backup_projects folder? (Hint: rm -r)

Viewing File Contents

cat file.txt

Challenge: Use this command to display the contents of summary.txt. Test: How can you display only the first 5 lines of a file? (Hint: Look up the head command)

==Finding Text Inside Files

grep "search_text" file.txt

Challenge: Search for the word temperature in the summary.txt file. Test: How would you find all occurrences of the word error in a log file called system.log?

Viewing System Information

df -h

Challenge: Display the available disk space on your Raspberry Pi using df -h. Test: How much space is available on the /boot partition?

Bonus Challenge:

Can you combine commands? For example, try combining ls with grep to find files with specific names. Run this:

ls | grep ".txt"

Worksheet 1 - Linux commands

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