Monday, September 17, 2018 Shell Test

Come to PBB 154 to meet me for the test.

2:20	Hu, Jialin
2:25	Hendy, Justin Michael
2:30	Yao, Fei
2:35	Mishra, Swati
2:40	Duan, Ning
2:45	Huenemann, Jay
2:50	Kapoor, Beant
2:55	Mihelic, Robert Ivan
3:00	Tams, Robert Nielsen
3:05	Piacquadio, Kamille Ashton
3:10	Yates, Timothy Bradfi
3:15	Bennett, Morgan
3:20	Hu, Xiaoli
3:25	Peters, Samantha Lynn
3:30	Song, Yaxiong
3:35	Singh, Shikha
3:40	Brewer, William Thomas
3:45	Wyman, Chris
3:50	Furches, Anna Katherine
3:55	Fitzgerald, Katie
4:00	Niyikiza, Daniel
4:05	Clemmons, Brooke Ashley
4:10	Peters, Tracey Lee
4:15	Bonifer, Kyle S
4:20	Rafie, Saad Abd Ar
4:25	Sultana, Mst Shamira
4:30	Riley, Anne McCall

So What Will Be on This Shell Test Exactly?

Examples:

• Log into the ACF (1 point)
• create a directory called xyz (1 point)
• create a file in xyz called myfile.txt (without going into the directory) (1 point)
• tell me the full file path to myfile.txt (1 point)
• put a line of text in my file.txt (1 point)
• cp a directory called cats from this location (1 point)
• tell me whats in that directory (1 point)
• show me the top of the file in cats called siamese.txt (1 point)
• etc.

If at any point you get lost, I'll get you back on track and you can still continue to get more points. So don't panic if things go a little sideways in the middle of this, just keep going and don't panic. You are going to do fine!

Know all commands from software carpentry lessons 1-3, a bit from 4. My primary interest is in testing if you get

• full versus relative file paths
• how to figure out where you are in the file system and navigate to other places (pwd, cd)
• how to create folders (mkdir)
• how to create, edit and look at the contents of files (touch, nano, cat, head, tail, >, >>)
• how to copy, remove, rename and move files and folders (cp, cp -r, rm, mv)
• how to learn about other commands (man)
• I'm not going to ask about wc, uniq, sort or pipes

Practice Test

1. login
2. make a directory named test
3. copy the fruit folder into the test folder (note, the fruit folder has contents):

/lustre/haven/courses/EPP622-2018Fa/fruit

4. change into the fruits folder
5. list the contents
6. create a file named apple.txt (there are two methods for this, either is fine)
7. print the contents of clementine.txt to the shell terminal
8. get the last ten lines of the peach.txt file and put into a new file called data.txt
9. rename data.txt to peach2.txt
10. what is the absolute path to peach2.txt?
11. go back to your home directory
12. delete the whole test folder