COP 2344 (Shell Scripting) Project #1
Basic Commands and Wildcards

Answer the following questions as briefly (but completely) as possible.  (These are thought exercises.  You are not supposed to type them in, but you can later, to check your answer after you have thought about it.)

1. Given the following files in your current directory:

       feb96 jan12.02 jan19.02 jan26.02 jan5.02 jan95 jan96 jan97 jan98 mar98 memo1 memo10 memo2 memo2.sv
   

   What would be the output of the following commands?  (Note, ranges in globs are guaranteed to work properly only in the POSIX locale, so assume that.)

   1. echo *
   2. echo *[!0-9]
   3. echo m[a-df-z]*
   4. echo [A-Z]*
   5. echo jan*
   6. echo *.*
   7. echo ?????
   8. echo *02
   9. echo jan?? feb?? mar??
   10. echo [fjm][ae][bnr]*
2. What is the effect of the following:
   1. ls | wc -l
   2. rm ???
   3. who | wc -l
   4. mv progs/* /users/steve/backup
   5. ls *.c | wc -l
   6. rm *.o
   7. who | sort
   8. cd; pwd
   9. cp memo1 ..
   10. plotdata 2>errors &

The answers to the above questions.  Where appropriate, feel free to use the script command to record your sessions.  See the man page for script for more details.  Then you can email to me the resulting typescript file created.

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