Due by 11:59.59pm Sunday, February 19, 2017
Due by 11:59.59pm Tuesday, February 21, 2017
You may work with a partner on this assignment. If you choose to do so, it is expected that you work together and equally contribute to the development of your solution. Also, you are both responsible for understanding how your solution works. You need only submit one assignment per group, but clearly indicate your partnership in the README and comments for files.
For this assignment you will be creating a number of shell scripts.
Write a shell script called testurl.sh that accepts a list of urls in a separate file and tests if the website is up or not. You might find it useful to checkout the curl, wget and tail commands.
rhoyle@clyde$ cat urls http://cs.oberlin.edu/~ncare/cs241/labs/lab8.html https://occs.cs.oberlin.edu/~rhoyle/17s-cs241/assignments/hw02.html http://no.such.url http://occs.cs.oberlin.edu rhoyle@clyde$ ./testurl.sh u Not found: http://no.such.url
This script should also handle errors. If the user doesn't provide any urls to the script it should print out a usage message.
Next, I want you to create a script called backup.sh. The script should take as arguments a directory to backup into (with "./backup" as the default) and a list of one or more files to copy to the backup directory.
Your script should only copy files in if their timestamp is more recent than the file that exists in the backup directory when the script is run. You might find it helpful to check bash's test (i.e. [ ]) syntax. Additionally, you should make your script executable using chmod. That is, the command should be runnable as follows
For extra credit, your script should keep a list of the five most recent backup directories and store copies as symlinks.
Third, I want you to create a shell script called diskhog.sh that lists the 5 largest items (files or folders) in the current directory in decreasing order of size. You should output the sizes in a human readable format like so:
% cd ~/pub/cs241 % ./diskhog.sh 3.9M week03 572K old 348K hw06 152K week06 112K week05
Check out the man pages for du, cut, sort, xargs and head (or tail)
For extra fun, have your script take a flag to change the number of items to display and another to limits it to files or directories.
Create a shell script called linecount that by default will report the total number of lines in all of the files in the current working directory (recursively).
If a glob is specified, use that as a delimiter for the files to scan. So, if you wanted to know how many lines of java code were in your folder, you might run:
% ./linecount '*.java'
You'll want to take a look at wc, pushd/popd or cd, find, and test.
I want you to write a script called gradeit.sh that will test your pyramid and rot128 submissions for lab 1.
The script should analyze student's submissions for correctness and warn if the output of the program differs from the reference implementation, which is located in ~/pub/cs241/lab1.
You must decide what to test for. You will be graded on how thorough your test is. Explain, in comments in your script, what you are testing for and why you are running that particular test. After your script has finished, you should clean up any temporary files created by the testing process
You'll want to take a look atwc, pushd (and popd), find, and diff
I often find myself using shell tools to answer questions about a data file that I'm working on. Here is a data file from a machine learning dataset that I'd like you download and unzip: adult.data.zip The fields in the data set are described at http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Adult.
Answer the following questions in your README file (and give the commands used to find the answer):
Potentially useful commands to look at include cut, sort, and uniq. If you include the commands you used to generate your answers, it might be possible to give you partial credit. Once you have answered the questions, you should delete the adult.data and adult.data.zip files so that you don't hand them in.
Have your linecount.sh script support an optional argument that will be used as a file glob pattern for the types of files. The user is responsible for properly quoting things on the command line. For example, to get a sum of all of the lines in your java source files you would use:
% ./linecount '*.java'
Create a file called README that contains
Now you should clean up your folder (remove test case detritus, etc.) and handin your folder containing your scripts and README.
% cd ~/cs241 % handin -c 241 -a 2 hw2 % lshand
Here is what I am looking for in this assignment:
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