Question

(In Linux)

1. Create a file to write to from your script and save it as “.txt”.

2. Write the following information to the file that you created in Step 1:

• Today's date
• Your full name
• Your student ID
• The name of your course
• What directory you are in
• File permissions of the file that you created that allow everyone to read, write, and execute
• The long list of files in your current directory, providing all items and their process IDs (pids)

Remember to append the information to the file for each command, except the first one.

3. Once you are done with the code, you can write the file and exit the text editor (vi), as follows:

:wq!

4. Make your script executable, as follows:

chmod u+x

5. Execute your script from the command line. (Note that you will not see any output on the command line.)

6. View the content of the text file that you created with your program to verify all of the required information from Step 2 that has been written to it.

Answer 1

1. To create the file write: vi filename.txt

2. Now write your data.

3. To save and quit press ESC and write :wq! in your text editor.

4. To make it executable write chmod u+x filename.txt. This will give the permission for execute to user.

5. To run the script write ./filename.txt.

6. To see the file write cat filename.txt

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