Practice Challenges

Test your Linux command line skills with these hands-on challenges!

Challenge 1: Navigation

Navigate the filesystem and find your way around.

Challenge 2: File Operations

Create, copy, and organize files.

Challenge 3: Directory Creation

Create a project directory structure.

Challenge 4: Find Files

Use find to locate specific files.

Challenge 5: Search File Contents

Use grep to search within files.

Challenge 6: Pipes

Combine commands with pipes.

Challenge 7: File Permissions

Make a script executable.

Challenge 8: Environment Variables

Work with environment variables.

Challenge 9: Redirection

Save command output to a file.

Challenge 10: Command Chaining

Chain commands together.

Free Practice

Use this playground to practice any commands:

Summary

You've practiced:

• Navigation (cd, ls, pwd)
• File operations (touch, cp, mv, rm, mkdir)
• Finding files (find)
• Searching content (grep)
• Using pipes
• Permissions (chmod)
• Environment variables
• Redirection
• Command chaining

Keep practicing these skills - they'll become second nature!

Next Steps

• Practice daily on a real Linux system
• Create aliases for your common tasks
• Write shell scripts to automate repetitive work
• Explore more advanced tools: awk, sed, jq