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Chapter 4 Assignment

This document provides instructions for a Chapter 4 assignment due on October 10th. It includes 9 questions to be answered using M.S. WORD, Linux commands like grep, sed, and cronjobs, and Perl scripts. The bonus problem involves using gawk to reverse and print the lines of a file called boxer.txt.

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Chapter 4 Assignment

This document provides instructions for a Chapter 4 assignment due on October 10th. It includes 9 questions to be answered using M.S. WORD, Linux commands like grep, sed, and cronjobs, and Perl scripts. The bonus problem involves using gawk to reverse and print the lines of a file called boxer.txt.

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Chapter 4 Assignment

Due Wednesday October 10th


Using M.S. WORD only, type answers for questions 1 - 6 and drop it in the Chapter 4 Drop Box on OnCourse.
Questions 7, 8, 9, and Bonus Problem will be answered in the server in your/homework/chapt_4 directory.

1. Using the correct utility, write the commands that will search through a text file named search_me.txt that will:
(10 pts)

a. find all instances of the word “the” in the file and list their line numbers.
grep –wn the search_me.txt

b. reverse all lines that don’t contain the word “the”


grep –wv the search_me.txt

c. find every instance of the words “and” and “And”


egrep –w .nd search_me.txt

d. find any string that starts with “ab” and ends with “ed”
egrep –w ab.*ed search_me.txt

2. Write one command that will find files in your home directory that have not been accessed for 30 days, zip them,
and redirect the output to a file named “changed_30_zipped.txt” (10 pts)
Find –iname “*” -atime +30 –type f | cpio -ov > changed_30_zipped.txt

3. Write a sed command that will indent all the lines of a text file named text.txt and redirect the output to a file
named “ind_text.txt” (10 pts)
sed 's/^/ /' text.txt > ind_text.txt

4. Write the linux commands to create a cronjob that will: (10 pts)
a. create a file named my_cron.cron
b. register the cronjob
c. edit my_cron.cron such that it:
1.displays a message that says “Reminder to me: call Mom!”
2.the message will appear every Sunday, every week, every month at noon

1. Create file here:


cat my_cron.cron
2. Register cronjob here:
crontab my_cron.cron
3. Command to edit cronjob here:
nano my_cron.cron
4. Text to edit cronjob here:
crontab –e
0 12 1-31 1-12 7 echo ‘ Reminder to me: call Mom!’

5. Write a command that will create a tarball named “tarred_up” that will tar all of the contents of your home
directory (including all sub-directories). (10 pts)

Tar –cvf tarred_up .

6. Write the commands that will: (10 pts)


a. backup (not tar) all of the files in the current working directory that end with .txt into a file named “cwd_bak”
ls *.txt | cpio –ov > cwd_bak

b. list all of the files in in the backed-up “cwd_bak”


*.txt

7. Finish the following Perl script and name it pattern.pl: (10 pts)

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Chapter 4 Homework
# Your name: Tyler Harrison

my $string = "There's always more than one way to do it!";

print "Enter a test expression: ";

# Get user keyboard input. The user must type one of the words in the $string variable
$var = <STDIN>
# to match the $string pattern.
# chomp the user input
chomp $var

# If $string equals input


$var = lc $var
If (var == $string)
# Print Congratulations you guessed part of the pattern
print “Congratulations you guessed part of the pattern”
# else
else
# print Sorry, but no match.
print “Sorry, but no match.”

8. Write a Perl script named “1_100.pl” that will add all the numbers from 1 to 100. (15 pts)

$Counter = 1;

$Addded = 0;

while ($Counter < 100){

$Added = $Added + $Counter ;

$Counter = $Counter + 1;}

print "1-100 added up is '$Added'"

9. Write a Perl script named “flavors.pl” that will print a hash or an array named “flavors”,
flavors will be your favorite flavors. Your script should print: (15 pts)

I like (your flavor choice) milkshakes


I like (your flavor choice) milkshakes
I like (your flavor choice) milkshakes

my %flavors=(
"Chocolate" , "White Chocolate",
"Cake", "Cheese Cake",
"Frozen Yogurt", "Vanilla",
);
my @Treats = keys%flavors;
for my $Treats (@Treats){
print "My favorite flavor of '$Treats' is $flavors{$Treats}\n";
}
Bonus Problem!
(5 points added to your homework grade if you answer this correctly. No points deducted for not completing it.)

Use the given file named “boxer.txt”. Write a gawk script that will transform the contents of boxer.txt into the following:
(note there is a blank line between each version of the lines) (15 pts)

line 1: I am just a poor boy


line 1 reversed: boy poor a just am I

line 2: Though my story's seldom told


line 2 reversed: told seldom story's my Though

line 3: I have squandered my resistance


line 3 reversed: resistance my squandered have I

line 4: For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises


line 4 reversed: promises are such mumbles of full pocket a For

line 5: All lies and jests


line 5 reversed: jests and lies All

line 6: Still a man hears what he wants to hear


line 6 reversed: hear to wants he what hears man a Still

line 7: And disregards the rest


line 7 reversed: rest the disregards And

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