Help with Unix

[kibito87]

So I have this quiz my teacher gave me and i'm having a little trouble trying to find what these commands do...I can either type them out here or if you wouldn't mind contacting me on AIM or via PM's that would be awesome.

echo*
echo /*
echo \*
echo "*"
echo
echo */*
rm *

Then if you wouldn't help me further i'd greatly appreciate this.

[sneakyn8]

this should help

[shadowkhas]

Or, man <command>

[kibito87]

Sneaky, i'm talking strictly unix not linux. Shadow, what?

[Altimit01]

He's saying use the man page from your terminal. Also echo and rm should behave the same for linux and unix. They're such basic commands that the differences if present would be minimal.

Edit: it would be a very bad idea to run the last command from your terminal. Just saying.

[WaeV]

As long as you weren't running as root, would the last command do anything?

[FleetAdmiralBacon]

As long as you weren't running as root, would the last command do anything?

It would delete everything in the current folder that you have write access to. (But not subfolders.)

[MarsMartianMan]

I got a gigantic wall of text, looks like my entire HDD's contents.

Your teacher is evil.

[Altimit01]

echo */* will do that. wouldn't expect anything less really.

[kibito87]

echo */* will do that. wouldn't expect anything less really.

Why would both do the same thing tho? So having the wildcard before or after the forward slash means nothing?

[LuxuriousMeat]

echo */* will do that. wouldn't expect anything less really.

Why would both do the same thing tho? So having the wildcard before or after the forward slash means nothing?

No, I'm assuming the wildcard is before the / too so it will do files in parent folders if your current directory isn't the root of the file system.

[noxiousraccoon]

The built in echo command writes out any words that follow it on the same command line to standard output so it's output can be directed to a file.