Homework 6 - Jocelyn Connors

Describe three shell utilities and take screenshots of their use

• echo: This built-in command prints out line(s) of text or arguments.

• pwd: This prints out the full file pathname of the current working directory.

• ls: displays all files belonging to the current working directory.

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Install a program using a package manager and take a screenshot

• Describe why you installed that program and what it does

  • I installed the command figlet which uses the subcommand toilet. It creates ASCII text banners in the Linux terminal. Figlet is used by entering in an argument and toilet is used to modify the aesthetic of argument, plain text. In toilet, after messing around, I was able to use smblock to create a box around the words and the color option metal. The width and space between characters can be altered as well.

The next one I installed was wikit which simply displays the Wikipedia summary of the word, which I typed “Linux”. It displays a maximum of 80 characters. However in Ubuntu, you need to install nodejs first before installing wikit by entering: $ sudo apt install nodejs . Not shown in the images below, when typing $ wikit Linux -b, it pulls up the actual Wikipedia page on your default browser.