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Lab Manual 1 - BCS-6A - Spring 2022

This document is a lab manual for an introductory computer networks course. It provides instructions for using the GCC compiler in Linux to compile and run C programs. Students will code in the Gedit text editor and save files with a .c extension. They will compile programs using gcc <filename>.c -o <executable> and run executables using ./<executable>. The lab manual contains 4 programming tasks: 1) read and display a text file, 2) write integers to a new file, 3) write non-alphabetic words to a new file, and 4) invert words containing vowels and write to a new file.

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Lab Manual 1 - BCS-6A - Spring 2022

This document is a lab manual for an introductory computer networks course. It provides instructions for using the GCC compiler in Linux to compile and run C programs. Students will code in the Gedit text editor and save files with a .c extension. They will compile programs using gcc <filename>.c -o <executable> and run executables using ./<executable>. The lab manual contains 4 programming tasks: 1) read and display a text file, 2) write integers to a new file, 3) write non-alphabetic words to a new file, and 4) invert words containing vowels and write to a new file.

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National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

Laboratory Manuals
for

Computer Networks
(CL -327)

Course Instructor
Lab Instructor(s)
Section
Semester Fall 2022

Department of Computer Science


FAST-NU, Lahore, Pakistan

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Lab Manual 01
Objectives:
• Introduction to GCC Compiler
• Revision of Programming Concepts with C Programming Language

GCC Compiler:
In this lab, we will use the GCC Compiler on Ubuntu to Compile the programs in C Language
and we will use POSIX Thread Libraries for multithreading in the later part of the lab. One
important thing to note is that you will not be provided any IDE to code in C Language. You will
use a simple text editor to code in Linux which is called GEDIT. The text editor will not provide
you any help in coding. You will have to write out the correct code yourself without any errors
(we expect this from you in 6th semester).

After you have written your code, you will save your file with *.c extension e.g MyCode.c and
then you will move to the directory where you have saved your file from your home folder using
command line in Ubuntu. To list the files and folders in the current directory you can simply
write “ls” command. To move into any directory you have to write “cd <directory_name>”. To
go directly into home directory we simply write “cd”. To go one step down in the hierarchy of
directories we write “cd ..”.

 To COMPILE YOUR FILE using gcc compiler you first have to go to the directory
where the file is placed and then you will write the following:

gcc <file_name>.c –o <executable_fileName>

If there is any error in your code then compiler will tell you those errors and you will correct
them. If there will be no error you will see an executable formed in the same directory having a
diamond like shape.

 Then you will RUN YOUR EXECUTABLE by issuing the following command in the
directory where your executable is placed:

./<executable_fileName>

Make sure you write the correct file name in any case otherwise you will get error. You can use
TAB after writing two to three letters of file and it will auto complete your file name for you.

 To open the terminal you will either open it using GUI or press “Ctrl+Alt+T”. To open
two windows in the same terminal you will use “Ctrl+Shift+T”. To paste something in
the Terminal you will press “Ctrl+Shift+V”. To copy something from your terminal you
will use “Ctrl+Shift+C”. To terminate any running program you will use “Ctrl+C” or
“Ctrl+Z”.

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In Lab Statements:
1. Write a code in c which performs the following functions:
a) Reads the text file Input_File.txt and displays its data on terminal. [3]

b) Write only the integers from the Input_File.txt file to another file which will be created at
runtime. [3]

c) Write non-alphabet words (non-alphabet word is the one in which all letters are non-
alphabet e.g., “a#$2#” is not a non-alphabet word but “$%^&#32” is a non-alphabet
word) from the Input_File.txt file into another text file which will be created at run-time.
[6]

d) Invert all the words in Input_File.txt file which contain one or more vowels and write the
complete content (with inverted and non-inverted words) into another file which will be
created at run time. For example ‘computer’ will be inverted to ‘retupmoc’. [8]

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