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School of Computing Science and Engineering

Course Code : BTCS9504 Course Name: Network Operating Systems

Unit-I
Basic Concepts

Name of the Faculty: Mr. Pradeep Bedi Program Name: B.Tech


Basic Concepts

Objective

After studying this content, you will be able to:

• Introduction of Linux Operating System


• Directories, Files and Inodes
• Users, Groups and Access Permissions
• Access Permissions

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Basic Concepts

Directories, Files and Inodes

• Every directory and file is listed in its parent directory.


• In the case of the root directory, that parent is itself.
• A directory is a file that contains a table listing the files contained within it, giving file
names to the inode numbers in the list.
• The information about all the files and directories is maintained in INODE TABLE
• An Inode (Index Nodes) is an entry in the table containing information about a file
(metadata) including file permissions, UID, GID, size, time stamp, pointers to files data
blocks on the disk etc.

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Basic Concepts

Users, Groups and Access Permissions

• In UNIX/LINUX, there is a concept of user and an associated group


• The system determines whether or not a user or group can access a file or program based
on the permissions assigned to them.
• Apart from all the users, there is a special user called Super User

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Basic Concepts

Access Permissions

• There are three permissions for any file, directory or application program.
• The following lists the symbols used to denote each, along with a brief
description:
r — Indicates that a given category of user can read a file.
w — Indicates that a given category of user can write to a file.
x — Indicates that a given category of user can execute the file

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Basic Concepts

Access Permissions
• Each of the three permissions are assigned to three defined categories of users.
• The categories are:
owner — The owner of the file or application.
group — The group that owns the file or application.
others — All users with access to the system.
• One can easily view the permissions for a file by invoking a long format listing
using the command ls -l.
• For instance, if the user juan creates an executable file named test, the output
of the command ls -l test would look like this: -rwxrwxr-x 1 juan student 0 Sep 26
12:25 test

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Basic Concepts

Access Permissions

• The permissions for this file are listed are listed at the start of the line, starting
with rwx.
• This first set of symbols define owner access.
• The next set of rwx symbols define group access
• The last set of symbols defining access permitted for all other users.

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Basic Concepts

Access Permissions

• This listing indicates that the file is readable, writable, and executable by
the user who owns the file (user juan) as well as the group owning the file
(which is a group named student).
• The file is also world-readable and world-executable, but not world-
writable.

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Basic Concepts

Listing the Content of a Directory

• ls is used to list the contents of a directory.


• If the command ls is written with parameter –l then the command lists
contents of the working directory with details. Example: $ ls –l

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Basic Concepts

Moving in Directories

• cd try_it Changes the directory to try_it


• pwd Prints present working directory (e.g. /home/smith/try_it)
• cd .. Move to superior directory pwd : Prints /home/smith
• cd /home The absolute path pwd : Prints /home
• cd The system is returned to the user home directory pwd : Print
/home/smith

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Basic Concepts

Make Directory

• The command mkdir my_dir


makes new directory my_dir (the path is given relative) as a
subdirectory of the current directory.

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Basic Concepts

Remove Directory

The command rmdir your_dir removes directory your_dir if it is empty

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Basic Concepts

Copy File

• The command cp file_1 file_2


• copies file_1 to file_2. The both files must be in the same working
directory. If they are in various directories, the path must be given

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Basic Concepts

Remove file

• The command rm filea removes the file a from the system If you use
wildcard. For example rm h*c you will remove all files beginning with h
and ending with c which are in working directory.
• If you write rm * you will erase all files from your working directory.

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Basic Concepts

Rename and/or Move the File

• The command mv file_1 file_2 moves file_1 to file_2


• The both files must be in the same working directory.
• If they are in different directories, the path must be given.
• The file_1 is removed from the disk.

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References

•Cisco™ Networking Academy Program: HP IT Essentials II: Network Operating Systems, Second Edition,
2004.

•Andrew S. Tanenbaum, ―Modern Operating Systems‖, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2004

•Ramaz Elmasri, A. Gil Carrick, David Levine, ―Operating Systems – A Spiral Approach‖, Tata McGraw
Hill Edition, 2010

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