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Linux file permissions are commonly represented as three triples (e.g. `rwxr-xr--`). What do the triples correspond to?

1. Linux file permissions are commonly represented as three triples (e.g. `rwxr-xr--`). What do the triples correspond to?
2. What does the pipe `|` do in the shell?
3. `sudo` is best described as:
4. `systemd` is most commonly used in modern Linux distributions to:
5. Which command lists the running processes?
6. `tar -czf archive.tar.gz dir/` does what?
7. The basic SSH command to log into a remote host as user `alice`:
8. Which is a package manager?
9. `kill -9 1234` does what?
10. A Linux "distribution" differs from the kernel in that:
11. Which command searches files for a text pattern?
12. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard places:

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