Linux Shells by Example

The TC Shell Lab Exercises

Lab 1—First Script

1. Write a script called greetme that will:

   1. Greet the user.

   2. Print the date and time.

   3. Print a calendar for this month.

   4. Print the name of your machine.

   5. Print a list of all files in your parent directory.

   6. Print all the processes you are running.

   7. Print the value of the TERM, PATH, and HOME variables.

   8. Print " Please couldn't you loan me $50.00? "

   9. Tell the user " Good bye " and the current hour. (See man pages for the date command.)

2. Make sure your script is executable.

   chmod +x greetme
   

3. What was the first line of your script?

Lab 2—Getting User Input

1. Write a script called nosy that will:

   1. Ask the user's full name—first, last, and middle name.

   2. Greet the user by his or her first name.

   3. Ask the user's year of birth and calculate ...