BAHRIA UNIVERSITY (KARACHI CAMPUS)
Assignment –SPRING SEMESTER – 2020
(operating system: CSL-320)
Class BS (CS) 6A/B/ BS(IT)-5A (Evening)/Morning
Lab Engineer: Muslim Ahmed Date: 26 june 2020;
Max Marks: 15
Student Name: Syed Muhammad Mehdi Enrolment : 02-134172-159
Note: All questions carry equal marks.
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Q1: Give LINUX/UNIX commands
To make a backup of current directory
LINUX:
$ cp -r directory_1 /home/DIRECTORY NAME
UNIX:
cd dirname
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To copy all environmental variables in a file which is in /etc directory
LINUX:
$ printenv //displays all the global ENVs
or
$ set //display all the ENVs (global as well as local)
or
$ env //display all the global ENVs
UNIX:
$ env | sort | head -10
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=UNIX: path=/run/user/1000/bus
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HISTCONTROL=ignorespace
HISTFILE=/home/shs/. history
HISTIGNORE=history:pwd: man *:ls:ls *
HISTSIZE=100
HISTTIMEFORMAT=%h %d %H:%M:%S>
HOME=/home/shs
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s
LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s
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To show the current user, system and working directory name
1. Wcommand or $USERNAME to show the current user
2. $pwd use for current working directory
3. $cat /etc/os-release for check the system using
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To print a list of running processes
LINUX:
1. top command: Display and update sorted information about LINUX processes.
2. atop command: Advanced System & Process Monitor for LINUX.
3. htop command: Interactive process viewer in LINUX.
4. pgrep command: Look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes.
5. pstree command: Display a tree of processes
UNIX:
Ps-aux
Sudo ps-a
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To give a list of all files containing word “bin”
To give a list of all files containing word “bin”
LINUX:
$ grep "bin" /home/tom/*.txt
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UNIX:
grep "bin" filename
grep root /etc/*
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Q2.: Write a script to search a specific file in current directory and then count all
characters/Words/Lines in the files
Answer
file=$1
v=0
if [ $# -ne 1]
then
echo "$0 filename"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f $file ]
then
echo "$file not a file"
exit 2
fi
# read vowels
exec 3<&0
while read -n 1 c
do
l="$(echo $c | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')"
[ "$l" == "a" -o "$l" == "e" -o "$l" == "i" -o "$l" == "o" -o "$l" == "u”] && ((v++ )) || :
done < $file
echo "Vowels: $v"
echo "Characters: $(cat $file | wc -c)"
echo "Blank lines: $(grep -c '^$' $file)"
echo "Lines: $(cat $file|wc -l)"
Q:3 Write a program or script to
Display all Text files.
Answer:
!/bin/bash
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files=$(ls);
for file in $files
do
# extension=$($file | awk -F. ‘{print $NF}');
if [ $file | awk -F. “{print $NF}" = txt ]
then
echo $file;
else
echo "Not a .txt file";
fi;
done;
Count all executable files.
Answer:
LINUX:
#! /bin/bash
To="home/magie/d2"
cd "$To"
find. -type f -perm 755
find. -type f -perm 755 | wc -l
UNIX:
USER=`whoami`
for GROUP in `groups`
do
GROUPLIST=${GROUPLIST}\\\|${GROUP}
done
READ=0
WRITE=0
EXEC=0
for FILE in `ls`
do
if ls -l $FILE | grep $USER
then
if ls -l $FILE | cut -c2 | grep r
then
READ=`expr $READ + 1`
fi
elif ls -l $FILE | egrep $GROUPLIST
then
else
fi
done
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check the type of a file.
Answer:
for file in *; do
case $(file --mime-type -b "$file") in
image/*g) ... ;;
text/plain) ... ;;
application/xml) ...;
application/zip) ...;
*) ... ;;
esac
done
#! /bin/bash
for file in "$PATH_TO_SOMEWHERE"; do
if [ -d $file]
then
# do something directory-ish
else
if [ "$file" == "*.txt”] # this is the snag
then
# do something txt-ish
fi
fi
done;
count all directories in the current directory.
Answer:
$ find. vim/ -maxdepth 1 -type d
. vim/
. vim/indent
. vim/colors
. vim/doc
. vim/after
. vim/autoload
. vim/compiler
. vim/plugin
. vim/syntax
. vim/ftplugin
. vim/bundle
. vim/ftdetect
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