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Practice Exercises - Case Statements: Exercise 1

This document provides an exercise to create a script called "sleep-walking" that accepts "start" and "stop" arguments. If any other argument is passed, it should display a usage statement and exit with a status of 1. To start the "sleep-walking-server", the script should run "/tmp/sleep-walking-server &" and to stop it, run "kill $(cat /tmp/sleep-walking-server.pid)". It also provides the contents of the "sleep-walking-server" file to put in /tmp.

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Practice Exercises - Case Statements: Exercise 1

This document provides an exercise to create a script called "sleep-walking" that accepts "start" and "stop" arguments. If any other argument is passed, it should display a usage statement and exit with a status of 1. To start the "sleep-walking-server", the script should run "/tmp/sleep-walking-server &" and to stop it, run "kill $(cat /tmp/sleep-walking-server.pid)". It also provides the contents of the "sleep-walking-server" file to put in /tmp.

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Practice Exercises - Case Statements

Exercise 1:
 
Create a startup script for an application called sleep­walking­server, which is provided below. 
The script should be named sleep­walking and accept "start" and "stop" as arguments.  If 
anything other than "start" or "stop" is provided as an argument, display a usage statement: 
"Usage sleep­walking start|stop" and terminate the script with an exit status of 1. 
 
To start sleep­walking­server, use this command: "/tmp/sleep­walking­server &" 
 
To stop sleep­walking­server, use this command: "kill $(cat /tmp/sleep­walking­server.pid)" 
 
Here is the contents of "sleep­walking­server".  Be sure to put this file in /tmp and run chmod 
755 /tmp/sleep­walking­server 
 
#!/bin/bash 
PID_FILE="/tmp/sleep­walking­server.pid" 
trap "rm $PID_FILE; exit" SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM 
echo "$$" > $PID_FILE 
 
while true 
do 
  : 
done 
 

 
 
 
 
 

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