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In this lab you will be learning about the standard command shell on Linux, bash.
For reference material, we suggest you look at this tutorial on the shell and the associated book The Linux Command Line (available as a PDF for free and in print). You may also use other Internet resources or other people. Please cite all sources that you use to answer the questions in this assignment.
You should turn in Lab 1 by 10 PM on Friday, September 21 via cuLearn. Your answers should be in plain text (the true UNIX file format) or PDF. No other formats are acceptable (and will result in a zero grade until re-submitted in the correct format).

You should expect to complete Part A in tutorial.

Part A

What is your username on this wiki? Have a TA help you create an account.
What Linux environment are you using?

- What distribution, what version?
- Is it running virtualized or on bare metal?
- Who installed it?
- What level of access do you have to it?

A shell command can be one of four things. What are those four things?
On the machine you are Where are external commands

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-In this lab you will be learning about the standard command shell on Linux, ''bash''.
+* In this lab you will be learning about the standard command shell on Linux, ''bash''.
+* For reference material, we suggest you look at this [http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_learning_the_shell.php tutorial on the shell] and the associated book [http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php The Linux Command Line] (available as a PDF for free and in print).  You may also use other Internet resources or other people. ''Please cite all sources that you use to answer the questions in this assignment.''
+*You should turn in Lab 1 by 10 PM on Friday, September 21 via cuLearn.  Your answers should be in '''plain text''' (the true UNIX file format) or '''PDF'''.  No other formats are acceptable (and will result in a zero grade until re-submitted in the correct format).
-For reference material, we suggest you look at this [http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_learning_the_shell.php tutorial on the shell] and the associated book [http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php The Linux Command Line] (available as a PDF for free and in print).  You may also use other Internet resources or other people. ''Please cite all sources that you use to answer the questions in this assignment.''
+You should expect to complete Part A in tutorial.
-You should turn in Lab 1 by 10 PM on Friday, September 21 via cuLearn.  Your answers should be in '''plain text''' (the true UNIX file format) or '''PDF'''.  No other formats are acceptable (and will result in a zero grade until re-submitted in the correct format).
+==Part A==
+# What is your username on this wiki?  Have a TA help you create an account.
+# What Linux environment are you using?
+** What distribution, what version?
+** Is it running virtualized or on bare metal?
+** Who installed it?
+** What level of access do you have to it?
+# A shell command can be one of four things.  What are those four things?
+# On the machine you are Where are external commands