Question

ce the following activities on your Linux virtual machine. Then complete estions. Write a script file which when executed will perform the following: First display today's date in dd.mm.YYYY format (e.g. 20.04.2019). Ask user to enter a name to create a directory. Create a directory by the given directory name above. . . Ask user to enter a name to create a file. Copy the file /etc/passwd to the given filename above inside the newly created directory Copy all files from your home directory to the newly created directory Finally list all contents in the newly created directory on screer. . . (10 Points)

using lubuntu

Answer 1

echo displaying date
#For printing date in given format
date +"%d.%m.%Y"

echo enter name to create directory
#read user input into variable name
read -p 'directory name:' name
#make directory in PWD location with given name
mkdir $name
cd /$name
echo enter name to create file
#read user input into variable name
read -p 'file name:' name2
#create a file using echo
echo > $name/$name2
#COPY password file into created file
cp /etc/passwd $name/$name2
#copy all files from home to new directory
cp -r $HOME $name
#list all the contents from new directory
#l list long , r for recursive searching , h for human readable manner
ls -lrh $name

#Input:
#sss
#myfile.txt
#Your Code's Output

#output:
#displaying date
#30.04.2019
#enter name to create directory
#enter name to create file
#total 3.0K
#drwx------ 2 nobody3 nobody3 1.0K Apr 30 13:36 root
#-rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody3 nobody3 1.8K Apr 30 13:36 myfile.txt