UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM AND SHELL PLROGRAMMING LAB

Course Code Credit Units Semester

CLO1: Identify the UNIX file system and its advantages.

CLO2. Describe the essential UNIX commands and shell programming.

CLO3. Apply and compare UNIX administration commands for privilege distribution.

CLO4. Implement different types of shell scripting programming.

Unix Programmes

1. Write a Shell Script that takes a search string and filename from the terminal & displays the results.
2. Write a Shell Script that takes pattern and filename as command line arguments and displays the
results appropriately i.e. pattern found/pattern not found.
3. Write a Shell Script that accepts only three arguments from the command line. The first argument is
the pattern string, the second argument is the filename in which the pattern is to be searches and the
third argument is the filename in which the result is to be stored.
4. Write a Shell Script that accepts a filename as a command line argument and finds out if its a
regular file or a directory. If its a regular file, then performs various tests to see if it is readable,
writeable, executable etc.
5. Write a Shell Script which creates the following menu and prompts for choice from user and runs
the chosen command.
Today's date
Process of user
List of files
Quit to UNIX
6. Write a Shell Script that computes the factorial of a given number
7. Write a Shell Script that works like a calendar reminding the user of certain things depending on
the day of the week.
8. Write a Shell Script that changes the extension of a group of files from txt to doc
9. Write a Shell Script that accepts both filename and a set of patterns as positional parameters to a
script.
10. Write a Shell Script which will redirect the output of the date command without the time into a
file.
11. Write a Shell Script (using while loop) to execute endlessly (until terminated by user) a loop
which displays contents of current directory, disk space status, sleep for 30 seconds and display the
users currently logged in on the screen.
12. Write a Shell Script that receives two filenames as arguments. It should check whether content of
the two files is same or not. If they are same, second file should be deleted.
13. If a number is input through the keyboard, WASS to calculate sum of its digits.
14. Write a Shell Script that performs a count-down either from 10 (default) or from the value that is
entered by the user.
15. Write a Shell Script which takes a command line argument of Kms and by default converts that
number into meters. Also provide options to convert km to dm and km to cm.
16. Write a Shell Script using for loop, which displays the message "Welcome to the UNIX System"
17. Write a Shell Script to change the filename of all files in a directory from lower-case to upper-
case.
18. Write a Shell Script that examines each file in the current directory. Files whose names end in old
are moved to a directory named old files and files whose names end in .c are moved to directory
named cprograms.
19. Write a Shell Script which searches all files in the given directory (to be taken as command line
argument) for the file having the title (to be taken as command line argument), as the first line in the
file.
a) Display the contents of the searched file.
b) In the end, printthe the file is ###, where
### is small-sized if total no. of lines is <50
### is medium-sized if total no. of lines between 50&100
### is large-sized.
20. Write a shell script which reports names and sizes of all files in a directory (directory would be
supplied as an argument to the shell script) whose size is exceeding 1000 bytes. The filenames
should be printed in descending order of their sizes. The total number of such files should also be
reported.
21. WASS for renaming each file in the directory such that it will have the current shell PID as an
extension. The shell script should ensure that the directories do not get renamed.
22. WAP to calculate and print the first m Fibonacci numbers.
23. WASS that will receive any number of filenames as arguments. The shell script should check
whether such files already exist. If they do, then it should be reported. The files that do not exist
should be created in a sub-directory called mydir. The shell script should first check whether the
sub-directory mydir exists in the current directory. If it doesn’t exist, then it should be created. If
mydir already exists, then it should be reported along with the number of files that are currently
present in mydir.
24. A shell script receives even number of filenames. Suppose four filenames are supplied, then the
first file should get copied into second file, the third file should get copied into fourth and so on.
If odd number of filenames is supplied then no copying should take place and an error message
should be displayed.
25. WASS to identify all zero-byte files in the current directory and delete them. Before proceeding
with deletion, the shell script should get a conformation from the user.
26. WASS to compute the GCD and LCM of two numbers.
27. Two numbers are entered through the keyboard. WAP to find the value of one number raised to
the power of another.
28. WASS that prompts the user for the password. The user has maximum of 3 attempts. If the user
enters the correct password, the message “Correct Password” is displayed else the message
“Wrong Password”.
29. WASS that repeatedly asks the user repeatedly for the “Name of the Institution” until the user
gives the correct answer.
30. WAP to generate all combinations of 1, 2 and 3 using for loop.

Examination Scheme:
Examination Scheme:

IA EE
A PR LR V PR V
5 15 15 15 25 25

Note: IA –Internal Assessment, EE- External Exam, PR- Performance, LR – Lab Record, V – Viva.