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Essential Command-Line Tools

grep, find, tar, permissions, and text processing

Domain Weight

Understand and use essential tools accounts for 15% of the EX200 exam.

RHCSA is performance-based — you must execute commands correctly under time pressure. Essential tools appear in nearly every exam task.

Tool	Common RHCSA Use
grep -r "pattern" /path	Search file contents recursively
find / -name "*.conf" -mtime -7	Locate files by name, size, time
tar czf archive.tar.gz /dir	Create compressed archive
chmod, chown, chgrp	Modify permissions and ownership
sed -i "s/old/new/g" file	In-place text substitution
awk '{print $1}' file	Column extraction and processing

Permissions

Know numeric (755, 640) and symbolic (u+x, g-w) notation. Default permissions via umask. SUID/SGID/sticky bit use cases.

Exam Focus Areas

Use grep -i for case-insensitive; -v to invert match
find -exec runs commands on results — alternative to xargs
tar xzf extracts .tar.gz archives

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RHCSA Study Notes

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Essential Command-Line Tools

grep, find, tar, permissions, and text processing

Domain Weight

Understand and use essential tools accounts for 15% of the EX200 exam.

RHCSA is performance-based — you must execute commands correctly under time pressure. Essential tools appear in nearly every exam task.

Tool	Common RHCSA Use
grep -r "pattern" /path	Search file contents recursively
find / -name "*.conf" -mtime -7	Locate files by name, size, time
tar czf archive.tar.gz /dir	Create compressed archive
chmod, chown, chgrp	Modify permissions and ownership
sed -i "s/old/new/g" file	In-place text substitution
awk '{print $1}' file	Column extraction and processing

Permissions

Know numeric (755, 640) and symbolic (u+x, g-w) notation. Default permissions via umask. SUID/SGID/sticky bit use cases.

Exam Focus Areas

Use grep -i for case-insensitive; -v to invert match
find -exec runs commands on results — alternative to xargs
tar xzf extracts .tar.gz archives

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