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This document provides an overview of various Linux utilities: 1. It discusses the UNIX/Linux operating system architecture and features, and explains the roles of the kernel and shell. 2. It covers file manipulation commands like ls, ln, mv, cp and differences between line editors and stream editors. 3. Network utilities like telnet, rlogin, ftp and arp are explained along with backup utilities tar and cpio. 4. Creating, copying, moving and deleting directories and files is demonstrated. 5. The purposes of utilities like grep, comm, tee and awk are briefly described.

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LP Unit 1 Assignment

This document provides an overview of various Linux utilities: 1. It discusses the UNIX/Linux operating system architecture and features, and explains the roles of the kernel and shell. 2. It covers file manipulation commands like ls, ln, mv, cp and differences between line editors and stream editors. 3. Network utilities like telnet, rlogin, ftp and arp are explained along with backup utilities tar and cpio. 4. Creating, copying, moving and deleting directories and files is demonstrated. 5. The purposes of utilities like grep, comm, tee and awk are briefly described.

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UNIT -1 Assignment

Linux Utilities
1 a)What is UNIX/ LINUX operating system and Explain features of UNIX/LINUX.
b) Explain the architecture of UNIX like systems
2 a)What is kernel and explain its functions
b)What is a Shell and Explain its responsibilities
3. (a) Explain the differences between a line editor and a stream editor.
(b) Write a short note on the following commands:
i. ls
ii. ln
iii. mv
iv. cp. [3+12]
4. a)Explain the network related commands. ( telnet,rlogin,ftp,arp)
b)Explain backup utilities (tar, cpio)
5. Explain the following commands with examples:
(a) Creating a Directory
(b) Copying a file from one directory to another
(c) Moving the files between Directories
(d)Deleting a Directory and a File.
6. Briefly explain the purpose of the following utilities:
(a) grep
(b) comm.
(c) tee
(d) awk. [15]
7. (a) Differentiate between a process, a program and a job.
(b) Explain various job control commands and their options with examples.
(c)What is the command used to bring a background job into the foreground job? [5+5+5]
8 Write short notes on the following utilities:
(a) ps
(b) telnet
(c) finger
(d) ulimit. [15]

9. Explain the following commands with syntax, options and examples:


(a) head
(b) tail
(c) more
(d) pg. [15]

10(a) Develop an AWK program to summarize from the list of all processes, a count
of processes run by every user (including root).
(b) Give the reason why Linux commands are divided into internal and external commands. [7+8]
11. (a) Explain how can we make the AWK to respond case insensitive to case.
(b) Suppose we create a phone directory of friends with family name, first name and phone
number on each line. How shall we use AWK to determine which is the most commonly occurring
family name in our phone directory? [7+8]

12 Discuss about various file handling utilities available in LINUX. Quote various options and
examples for each. [15]
13 a) Explain briefly about text processing and process utilities.
b) Write a short note on awk command (15)

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