Friday, November 25, 2011

Unix Assignment2- Solutions

UNIX

1. Create a tree structure named ‘training’ in which there are 3 subdirectories – ‘level 1’,’ level2’ and ‘cep’. Each one is again further divided into 3. The ‘level 1’ is divided into ‘sdp’, ‘re’ and ‘se’. From the subdirectory ‘se’ how can one reach the home directory in one step and also how to navigate to the subdirectory ‘sdp’ in one step? Give the commands, which do the above actions?

Ans : To navigate from 'se' to home directory,in one step,the command is : cd

To navigate from 'se' to 'sdp',in one step,the command is : cd ../b

2. How will you copy a directory structure dir1 to dir2 ? (with all the subdirectories)

Ans : cp –R dir1 dir2

3. How can you find out if you have the permission to send a message?

Ans : ls -l ( To check access permissions)

4. Find the space occupied ( in Bytes) by the /home directory including all its subdirectories.

Ans : du -s -b

5. What is the command for printing the current time in 24-hour format?

Ans : date +%T

6. What is the command for printing the year, month, and date with a horizontal tab between the fields?

Ans : date +%Y%t%B%t%e

7. Create the following files: chapa, chapb, chapc, chapd, chape, chapA, chapB, chapC, chapD, chapE, chap01, chap02, chap03, chap04, chap05, chap11, chap12, chap13, chap14, and chap15.

Ans :The general syntax is :

cat > filename

Type the contents of file

Press Ctrl+D

cat > chapa

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chapb

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chapc

Type the contents of file

Cat > chapd

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chape

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chapA

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chapB

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chapC

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chapD

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chapE

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chap01

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chap02

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chap03

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chap04

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chap05

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chap11

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chap12

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chap13

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat > chap14

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

Cat> chap15

Type the contents of file

Ctrl+D

8. With reference to question 7, What is the command for listing all files ending in small letters?

Ans : find –name “*[a-z].*”

9. With reference to question 7, What is the command for listing all files ending in capitals?

Ans : find –name “*[A-Z].*”

10. With reference to question 7, What is the command for listing all files whose last but one character is 0?

Ans : find –name “*0?.*”

11. With reference to question 7, What is the command for listing all files which end in small letters but not ‘a’ and ‘c’?

Ans: find –name “*[b d-z].*”

12. In an organisation one wants to know how many programmers are there. The employee data is stored in a file called ‘personnel’ with one record per employee. Every record has field for designation. How can grep be used for this purpose?

Ans : grep -c "programmers" personnel

13. In the organisation mentioned in question 12 how can sed be used to print only the records of all employees who are programmers.

Ans : sed -n /programmers/p personnel

14. In the organisation mentioned in question 12 how can sed be used to change the designation ‘programmer’ to ‘software professional’ every where in the ‘personnel’ file

Ans : sed 's/programmer/software professional/g' personnel

15. Find out about the sleep command and start five jobs in the background, each one sleeping for 10 minutes.

Ans :sleep 10m & sleep 10m & sleep 10m & sleep 10m & sleep 10m &

16. How do you get the status of all the processes running on the system? i.e. using what option?

Ans : ps -e

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