Intro to Unix: Challenges

Use each of the challenges below to practice for your Unix performance evaluation:

1. 1. Create a directory named sports in your home directory.
      
      
   2. Create subdirectories in the sports directory named baseball, football, basketball, and soccer.
      
      
   3. Create a file named stars.txt in the baseball directory. Add the names of three baseball stars, one per line, to this file. If you don't know the names of any baseball stars, just make up three names.
      
      
   4. Repeat the previous step in each of the other subdirectories of the sports directory.
   
   
   
2. 1. Create a directory named pets in your home directory.
      
      
   2. Create subdirectories in the pets directory named common and exotic.
      
      
   3. Create a file named list.txt in the common directory. Add the names of five common pets, one per line, to this file.
      
      
   4. Repeat the previous step in the exotic directory.
   
   
   
3. 1. Create a directory named cities in your home directory.
      
      
   2. Create subdirectories in the cities directory named east_coast, west_coast, mid_east, and mid_west.
      
      
   3. Create a file named list.txt in the east_coast directory. Add the names of three cities found on the East coast, one per line, to this file.
      
      
   4. Repeat the previous step in each of the other regional sub-directories.
   
   
   
4. 1. Create a directory named movies in your home directory.
      
      
   2. Create subdirectories named comedy, action, and horror. In each of these put two more directories named favorite and least_favorite.
      
      
   3. Create a file named name.txt in the favorite subdirectory of the comedy directory. Add the name of your favorite comedy movie, to this file. Now create another file called name.txt in the least_favorite subdirectory of comedy. Put the name of your least favorite comedy in this file.
      
      
   4. Repeat the previous step in the action and horror directories.
   
   
   
5. 1. Create a directory named music in your home directory.
      
      
   2. Create subdirectories in the music directory named bands and instruments.
      
      
   3. Create two new subdirectories in the bands directory, named new_rock and classic_rock
   4. Create a file named instruments.txt in the instruments directory. Add the names of three musicical instruments, one per line, to this file.
      
      
   
   
   
6. 1. Create a directory named continents in your home directory.
      
      
   2. Create subdirectories in the continents directory named asia, europe, africa, nort_america, and south_america.
      
      
   3. Create a file named countries.txt in the asia directory. Add the names of three countries, one per line, to this file.
      
      
   4. Repeat the previous step in each of the other subdirectories of the continents directory.
   
   
   
7. 1. Create a directory named schools in your home directory. Create a subdirectory named arlington in the schools directory.
      
      
   2. Create subdirectories in the arlington directory named elementary, middle, and high.
      
      
   3. Create a file named list.txt in the elementary directory, Add the names of four arlington elementary schools, one per line, to this file.
      
      
   4. Repeat the previous step in the middle and high directories.