VIVEKANANDA INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

VIVEKANANDA SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATION

LINUX – OS LAB

BCA 371

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Sector - 16C, Dwarka, Delhi - 110078

SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED

BY:
Ms. Megha Bansal Sahil Mendiratta
_ Assistant Professor 10729802021
VSIT BCA5B
 INDEX
S. Detailed Statement Date Signature
No.
1. To understand help commands like: -man,info,help,whatis,apropos
2. To understand basic directory navigation commands like cat,cd, mv, cp,
rm, mkdir,rmdir ,file, pwd command.
3. To understand basic commands like: -
date,cal,echo,bc,ls,who,whoami,hostname,uname,tty,aliase
4. Q1. Display the name of the client machine with complete details
Q2. Count the number of words, sentences and characters in the
directory.
Q3. To list the directories and sub directories by specifying their
locations
Q4. To list the total time that the system has been setup
Q5. Display the directory contents of your directory. The output should
be multi column and should contain the hidden files.
Q6. Create and verify a new file using the cat command. Also display its
contents
Q7. Delete file(s) and directory(s)
5. Wildcards
6. To understand vi basics, three modes of vi Editor, how to write, save,
execute a shell script in vi editor.
7. To understand process related commands like: - ps, top, pstree, nice,
renice in Linux.
8. To understand how to examine and change File permissions.
9. Q1 Symbolically (e.g rwxr-xr-x), what are the permissions
644,755,000,711,700,777,555,111,600,731?
Q2 Given a file with permissions 755, what commands would change
the permissions to r-x-r--r--?
Q3. List the processes for the current shell(ps).
Q4. Display detailed information about processes(ps –f).
Q5. Search for a string inside a file
Q6. Search for a string inside the directory
Q7. Stop any currently running process
Q8. Run the process in the background
Q9. Kill the process
Q10. Search for a string recursively.
Questions on pipes
10. Set a file to be read-only with the chmod command. Interpret the file
permissions displayed by the ls -l command.
11. Delete one or more directories with the rmdir command. See what
happens if the directory is not empty. Experiment (carefully!) with the
rm -r command to delete a directory and its content.
12. Change your directory to the directory exercises. Create a file in that
directory, named the file as example1 using the cat command containing

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 the following text: water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink;
water, water everywhere, no drop to drink.
13. Case Construct and Loops.
14. Write basic shell script to display the table of a number.
15. Write basic shell script to input a character from user and then check
whether it is uppercase, lowercase or digit.
16. Write basic shell script to calculate factorial of a number.
17. Write basic shell script to input the month number and generate
corresponding calendar.
18. Write basic shell script to list all directories
Write basic shell script to display greatest of three numbers.
19. Write basic shell script to check whether the number entered by user is
prime or not.
20. Write basic shell script to check whether the year entered is leap or not.

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 1. To understand help commands like: -man,info,help,whatis,apropos.

$man

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 $Info

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 $help

$whatis

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 $apropos

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 2. To understand basic directory navigation commands like cat,cd, mv, cp, rm,
mkdir,rmdir ,file, pwd command.

1. $cat

2. $cd

3. $mv

4. $cp

5. $rm

6. $mkdir

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 7. $rmdir

8. $file

9. $pwd

3. To understand basic commands like: -

date,cal,echo,bc,ls,who,whoami,hostname,uname,tty,aliase

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 a. $date

b. $cal

c. $echo

d. $bc

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 e. $ls

f. $who

g. $whoami

h. $hostname

i. $uname

j. $tty

k. $aliase

4. Q1. Display the name of the client machine with complete details.

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 Q2. Count the number of words, sentences and characters in the directory.

Q3. To list the directories and sub directories by specifying their locations.

Q4. To list the total time that the system has been setup.

Q5. Display the directory contents of your directory. The output should be
multi column and should contain the hidden files.

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 Q6. Create and verify a new file using the cat command. Also display its
contents.

Q7. Delete file(s) and directory(s)

5. Wildcards

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 a. * (Asterisk): Represents any sequence of characters (including none).

b. ? (Question Mark): Represents a single character.

c. [] (Square Brackets): Represents any one character within the brackets.

d. [-] (Hyphen within Square Brackets): Represents a range of characters.

e. ^ (Caret within Square Brackets): Represents any character except those

listed.

f. ! (Exclamation Mark): Represents not. Used for negating a pattern.

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 6. To understand vi basics, three modes of vi Editor, how to write, save, execute a
shell script in vi editor.

i. Regular/command mode
ii. Insert mode/Input-text mode
iii. Replacement mode

Writing, Saving, and Executing a Shell Script in vi:

a. Open/Create a Shell Script:

b. Switch to Insert Mode:

Press i to switch to Insert mode.

c. To save and quit at the same time:

Press Esc to return to Normal mode.
:wq in Command-line mode and press Enter.

d. Execute the Shell Script:

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 7. To understand process related commands like: - ps, top, pstree, nice, renice in
Linux.
a. $ps

b. $top

c. $pstree

d. $nice

e. $renice

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 8. To understand how to examine and change File permissions.

9. Q1 Symbolically (e.g rwxr-xr-x), what are the permissions

644,755,000,711,700,777,555,111,600,731?

644 = rw-r - -r- -

755 = rwxr-xr-x
000 = - - - - - - - - -
711 = rwx- - x - -x
700 = rwx- - - - - -
777 = rwxrwxrwx
555 = r-xr-xr-x
111 = - -x- -x- -x
600 = rw- - - - - - -
731 = rwx-wx- -x

Q2 Given a file with permissions 755, what commands would change the
permissions to r-x-r--r--?

Q3. List the processes for the current shell(ps).

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 Q4. Display detailed information about processes(ps –f).

Q5. Search for a string inside a file.

Q6. Search for a string inside the directory.

Q7. Stop any currently running process.

Q8. Run the process in the background

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 Q9. Kill the process

Q10. Search for a string recursively.

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 Questions on pipes

10 Set a file to be read-only with the chmod command. Interpret the file
. permissions displayed by the ls -l command.

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 11 Delete one or more directories with the rmdir command. See what happens if
. the directory is not empty. Experiment (carefully!) with the rm -r command to
delete
a directory and its content.

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 12 Change your directory to the directory exercises. Create a file in that directory,
. named the file as example1 using the cat command containing the following
text: water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink; water, water
everywhere,
no drop to drink.

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 13 Case Construct and Loops.
.

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 14 Write basic shell script to display the table of a number.
.

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 Write basic shell script to input a character from user and then check whether
15 it is uppercase, lowercase or digit.
.

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 16 Write basic shell script to calculate factorial of a number.
.

Write basic shell script to input the month number and generate

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 17 corresponding calendar.
.

18 Write basic shell script to list all directories

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 .

18. Write basic shell script to display greatest of three numbers.

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 19 Write basic shell script to check whether the number entered by user is prime
. or not.

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 20 Write basic shell script to check whether the year entered is leap or not.
.

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