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Third Semester B.E. Degree Examination, June/July 2019
UNIX and Shell Programming

Time: 3 hrs. Max. Marks: 100

Note: Answer any FIVE full questions, choosing
ONE full question from each module.

Module-1
--..- 1 a. With a neat diagram, explain the architecture of UNIX operating system. (08 Marks)
b. Differentiate between internal and external commands in UNIX with suitable examples.
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• ,,-, Draw the final tree structure for directory 'a'. (07 Marks)
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— ::: c. Explain the following commands with an example. i) cd ii) pwd iv) rmdir v) we. (05 Marks)
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b. Explain the following commands with an example for each.

i) cp ii) rm iii) my iv) cat. (04 Marks)
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e_ Current file permissions of a regular file unix are rw_ _w_ _ _x. Write chmod expressions
required to change it to the following :
i) _wxrwxr_x ii) _ __r_xrw iii) rwx x iv) r wx .
Using both relative and absolute methods of assigning permissions. (08 Marks)
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Module-3
5 a. Explain the three modes of vi. Indicate clearly how can you switch form one mode to
another. Explain the following input mode commands : i 1, a A, r, R, o, 0, s, S. (10 Marks)
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b. Explain what these wild-card pattern match

i) [A — Z]???? * ii) *[! 0 — 9]* iii) *.[!t][lx][q] (06 Marks)
c. Explain the navigation keys for the following types of navigations in vi editor.
i)Movement in four directions
ii) Word navigation. (04 Marks)

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6 a. With suitable examples, explain the `grep' command with its various options. (06 Marks)
b. Briefly explain Basic Regular Expression (BRE) and Extended Regular Expression (ERE)
metacharacters. (10 Marks)
c. Write a regular expression to match the following i) a decimal number which is non negative
and floating point number ii) A valid 'C' variable. (04 Marks)

Module 4 -

7 a. Explain the following commands with an example for each. i) head ii) tail iii) cut iv) paste.
(08 Marks)
b. What is shell programming? Write a shell program to create a simple calculator which can
perform basic arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication or division,
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depending upon the user input (10 Marks)

c. Write the syntax for if-else-fi statement in shell programming. (02 Marks)
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8 a. Write a shell program to get the following details of the student. Name, age, USN and
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gender. Output all the details to the terminal. And also output whether the student is eligible
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to vote or not with suitable messages. (08 Marks)

b. Distinguish between hard links and soft links.
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c. Write and explain the syntax of 'while' and 'for' loops in shell programming.
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Module 5 -

9 a. Write a Peri script to determine whether the given year is a leap year or not. (08 Marks)
h. What is the difference between a job and a process? How do you i) suspend the foreground
job ii) move a suspended job to the background iii) bring back a suspended job to the
foreground? (06 Marks)
c. Explain the mechanism of process creation. (06 Marks)

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10 a. Explain the following string handling functions of PERL with example :
i) length ii) index iii) substr iv) reverse. (08 Marks)
b. Explain the following commands :
i) at cron iii) nice iv) nohup. (08 Marks)
c. With suitable examples, explain 'split' and 'join' functions in PERL. (04 Marks)

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