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Unix and Shell Lab Programming Week3

The document provides instructions and examples for using various Linux commands. It discusses using who to view logged in users, piping commands together, and using sed to manipulate text in a file. Specifically, it shows how to delete the first/last character of each line and swap the first two words of each line using sed. Piping who to more or wc -l is demonstrated to view or count logged in users. Additional resources on who and sed are also referenced.

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Unix and Shell Lab Programming Week3

The document provides instructions and examples for using various Linux commands. It discusses using who to view logged in users, piping commands together, and using sed to manipulate text in a file. Specifically, it shows how to delete the first/last character of each line and swap the first two words of each line using sed. Piping who to more or wc -l is demonstrated to view or count logged in users. Additional resources on who and sed are also referenced.

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Week3

Session1:
a)Login to the system
b)Use the appropriate command to determine your login shell
Sol: $echo $SHELL
sh
c)Use the /etc/passwd file to verify the result of step b.
Sol: $cat /etc/passwd

d)Use the who command and redirect the result to a file called myfile1. Use the
more command to see the contents of myfile1.
Sol : $who > myfile1 | more

User1 pts/0 Apr 23 10:43


User2 pts/1 May 6 18:19
e)Use the date and who commands in sequence (in one line) such that the output
of date will display on the screen and the output of who will be redirected to a file
called myfile2. Use the more command to check the contents of myfile2.
Sol: $ date ; who > myfile2

Fri Aug 9 16:47:32 IST 2008

Cat myfile2 :

User3 pts/2 Apr 25 10:43


User4 pts/3 May 8 18:19

Note… Make Use of following commands:


Who :---
The "who" command lets you display the users that are currently logged into your
Unix computer system.

who
This is the basic who command with no command-line arguments. It shows the names of
users that are currently logged in, and may also show the terminal they're logged in on,
and the time they logged in.

who | more

In this example the output of the who command is piped into the more command. This is
useful when there are a lot of users logged into your computer system, and part of the
output of the who command scrolls off the screen. See the more command for more
examples.

who -a

The -a argument lists all available output of the who command for each user.

Piping:---

To connect the output of the one command directly to the input of the other
command. This is exactly what pipes do. The symbol for a pipe is the vertical bar |

For example, typing

% who | sort

will give the same result as above, but quicker and cleaner.

To find out how many users are logged on, type

% who | wc -l
Session 2:

Input File : file1.dat :


Unix is Multiuser OS
Unix was developed by Brian Kernighan and KenThomson

a)Write a sed command that deletes the first character in each line in a file.
Sol: sed 's/^./ /‟ file1.dat
nix is Multiuser OS
nix was developed by Brian Kernighan and KenThomson

b)Write a sed command that deletes the last character in each line in a file.
Sol: sed '$s/.$//' file1.dat
Unix is Multiuser O
Unix was developed by Brian Kernighan and KenThomso

c)Write a sed command that swaps the first and second words in each line in a file.
sed -e 's/\([^ ]\+\) *\([^ ]\+\)/\2 \1/'
sed 's/\([a-z]*\) \([a-z]*\)/\2 \1/' (Modified & working)

(Substrings enclosed with "\(" and "\)" can be referenced with "\n" (n is a digit
from 1 to 9) )

Note : Make use of following Link to know more about sed

Ref : http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-0

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