[SOLVED] CSC3320 -System Level Programming - Lab Assignment 6 - Part 1 - In-Lab

Description

Purpose: Learn how to correct a shell script and write more

complicated shell scripts.

Part 1:

In order to finish the tasks in this lab, you must connect to  snowball server to copy my checkError.sh

In Lab 5, you may have tried the shell script checkError.sh in part 3. However, there are four errors on four different lines in that shell script. Please correct all the four errors by writing down the line

number, the error and the correction as below:

Line #:            Error:                              Correction:

 Note: please use cat -n to check the line numbers.

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         Hints:

 Following is a sample of the output once all the errors are  corrected $ ./checkError.sh ylong4

Try to find out some errors!!!

checkError.sh Result

Congratulations! You have corrected all the errors!

 You would also receive an email sent from your snowball account once all the   errors are corrected.

 You may need to use CTRL-C to terminate the execution of the command, especially for the script file with errors.

Part 2:

Write a single shell script hello.sh which can finish the list of tasks                  as below:

1. Greet user. E.g. Welcome to computer science society.
2. Contain a comment section with your name, and email address.
3. Print the date.
4. Print the number of directories in /home .
5. Print the value of variables PATH, USER and SHELL.
6. Print your disk usage (df).
7. Print Please, could you loan me $25.00?
8. Print if x = 2, x * x = 4 , x / 2 = 1
9. List all the .sh files with c at the beginning of the file name in current working
10. Tell the user Good bye and the current hour (see manual page of date command refer to the webpage at http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2013/05/date-commandexamples )