CSCD240-S26-L03

Lecture 3. Files, directories, file command, wildcards, viewing

Delivered 2026-04-01

Key topics: ["file","find","less","more","wildcards"]

Authority mappings

DCWF roles: CE-463 Host Analyst IT-451 System Administrator

CSCD240-E1-A-Q13 search-find Somewhere in the filesystem there is a file config.ini. Locate it.
CSCD240-E1-A-Q28 globbing Files: data, data1, data12, data2. Display only data1 and data12 via ls.
CSCD240-E1-A-Q48 metadata Show detailed metadata for /etc/passwd: inode, all three timestamps, octal perms.
CSCD240-E1-B-Q14 enum-misconfig Find every world-writable regular file under /var (common misconfig indicator).
CSCD240-E1-B-Q33 forensics-stat Print all metadata for /etc/passwd: inode, perms in octal, all three timestamps.
CSCD240-E1-B-Q34 forensics-file Identify the data type of sample.bin (ELF, ASCII, gzip, etc).
CSCD240-E1-C-Q01 forensics Which command returns inode, permission bits, size, and all three timestamps of a file?
CSCD240-E1-C-Q12 glob Which glob matches filenames starting with "log" and ending with any digit?
CSCD240-E1-C-Q17 find Which command searches the filesystem for a file by name, suppressing permission-denied errors?