Question

There is a file "IT4983" in my home (personal) directory. I don’t know my current working directory. How can I find out the file type of "IT4983" (e.g. a text file, a link, or a directory?) without knowing my current working directory? ________ (file ~/IT4983, ls ~/IT4983 -l) Use one command only.

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

Find / -name "IT4983"

See what it will do is it will find the file named IT4983 in the root directory.

run this commmand with sudo just in case for permission issues.

then it will give you the location of that file we want to find.

 

Or

$ file /home/IT4983 ( you can type this command from whichever directory you are )

output : IT4983 , ASCII TEXT