CS114 Programming Assignments

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Homework 1: Due 10/1.

Send e-mail to instructor from your Unix account.

mailx

elm

Put CS114, name in the subject line.
Say why you're taking CS114 in the body of the message.
Due 10/1 at 5PM. Even if you're late, please submit ASAP.

Homework 2: Due 10/8

Copy the files a1.txt, a2.txt, b1.txt, b2.txt, c1.txt, and c2.txt to your

ls -a

Edit all six files to include your name and ID.
Follow the instructions in Problem 15 on page 71 in Introduction to Unix.
Use the .txt file extension for all files.
Follow the instructions in Chapter 8, Section 8.3 to set correct premissions. Don't forget to

The graders will check to see if you correctly copied and edited all files in your account.

NOTE: You do not need to write a list of all your commands. I think doing the work and
setting permissions is enough.

Homework 3: Due 10/18 by end of lecture.

Problems 1-20 from Chapter 7, Introduction to UNIX (pg. 87-88)

Your solutions must be typed.
Show all command-line input in boldface.

Homework 4: Due Mon 10/25 by end of lecture.

For each of the following commands,

Organize each into useful categories, like communication, identity, text processing, etc

Write a brief, 1 line description that's at least as good, if not better than what man tells you
Show at least 1 example that you could enter at the prompt

you must explain what each example does
feel free to use command options, if available

You may work with a partner if you wish. Submit one copy with both names.

Commands:
man, cd, ls, ln, mv, cp, pwd, echo, exit, logout, more, less, vi, emacs, kill, ps, fg, bg, jobs, stop, notify, wait,
sleep, nohup, crontab, at, batch, news, who, listusers, rusers, finger, su, w, rwho, users, whois, mail,
mailx, talk, mesg, send, rn, hostname, host, ping, telnet, rlogin, rsh, ftp, uuencode, uudecode, uucp,
find, grep, egrep, fgrep, comm, diff, diff3, dircmp, cmp, sort, uniq, troff, col, cut, head, tail, split, spell,
compress, uncompress, tar, gzip, pack, unpack, zip, unzip, pg, cat, join, touch, uname, set, alias, setenv,
stty, zmore, zdiff, chmod, umask, groups, chown, su, du, df, quota, yes, banner, cal, calender, date, ed, ex,
env, from, folder, gs, history, ispell, last, look, login, lp, lpr, lpstat, lpq, mkdir, rmdir, rm, paste, ps2ascii,
ps2pdf, time, type, which, whence, timex, unalias, dis (yes, there is indeed a dis command)

Submission Rules

Each homework due on Friday unless otherwise announced.
See syllabus and policies for more details.