Updated: 2014-10-31 13:04 EDT
Do not print this assignment on paper!
- On paper, you will miss updates, corrections, and hints added to the online version.
- On paper, you cannot follow any of the hyperlink URLs that lead you to hints and course notes relevant to answering a question.
- On paper, scrolling text boxes will be cut off and not print properly.
12h00 (noon) Friday November 7, 2014 (end of Week 10)
assignment05.txt
in your CLS account.assignment05.txt
uploaded to Blackboard.WARNING: Some inattentive students upload Assignment #5 into the Assignment #4 upload area. Don’t make that mistake! Be exact.
This is a BONUS assignment for extra credit. It is optional.
CST8207-14F
directory in your CLS HOME directory.Assignments
directory in the CST8207-14F
directory.assignment05
directory in the Assignments
directory.Hint: You can create the entire directory tree above using one single command with one option and one pathname argument, as you did at the end of Section 4 in Worksheet #02 HTML. System administrators like to work efficiently – they learn how to do things quickly.
The correct directory tree will look similar to the ASCII tree diagram below. The spelling and capitalization must be exactly as shown.
CST8207-14F
`-- Assignments
`-- assignment05
This
assignment05
directory is the Base Directory for most pathnames in this assignment. Store your files and answers in this Base Directory.
assignment05.txt
in the Base Directory on the CLS. For every question that you answered incorrectly on the first midterm test, reproduce in the answer file:
If you had no incorrect answers, upload an empty answer file. If you missed the test, you would have to copy the entire test and answer every question.
Underneath each question and correct answer in your answer file, indicate where in the Class Notes (which section of which Class Notes file) you can learn how to generate this correct answer. No marks are awarded unless your source for getting the answer is shown. Show me that you know where in the notes, worksheets, or manual pages the answer comes from. (Practice tests are not sources of answers.) Number each question with a leading Q
and use this exact format for each answer:
Q5. How do you recursively remove a non-empty directory?
Answer: rm -r
Source: Worksheet 3 section 5 rm command
Q22. What character signals EOF at the keyboard?
Answer: ^D
Source: 120_shell_basics "Interrupting Processes and signalling End-of-File"
Source: 200_redirection "Input Redirection"
Q
using the above format.Answer:
using the above format.Source:
using the above format.You can copy-and-paste each question and the correct answer into your answer file. You must do your own work finding where the correct answer can be found. Marks are awarded for original typed work for the source, not for copy-and-paste from your friends. Any source answers that are found to be copy-and-paste from some other document will require you to resubmit the entire lab as hand-written and will result in a charge of plagiarism or academic fraud as well. Do your own research; type your own answer locations; no copy-and-paste from your friends; they won’t be at your job interview.
In this assignment, you are only answering the questions that you got wrong on the midterm test, not all the questions. Just the ones you got wrong.
Submit your plain text file following the directions below.
assignment05.txt
file from the CLS to your local computer and verify that the file still contains all the correct content from the CLS. Do not edit this file on your local computer! No empty files, please! Edited or damaged files will not be marked. You may want to refer to your File Transfer notes.
assignment05.txt
file from your local computer to the correct Assignment area on Blackboard (with the exact name) before the due date:
Use only Attach File on the Upload Assignment page. Do not enter any text into the Text Submission or Comments boxes on Blackboard; I do not read them. Use only the Attach File section followed by the Submit button. If you need to comment on any assignment submission, send me email.
You can revise and upload the file more than once using the Start New button on the Review Submission History page to open a new Upload Assignment page. I only look at the most recent submission.
You must upload the file with the correct name from your local computer; you cannot correct the name as you upload it to Blackboard.
You will also see the Review Submission History page any time you already have an assignment attempt uploaded and you click on the underlined assignment05 link. You can use the Start New button on this page to re-upload your assignment as many times as you like.
You cannot delete an assignment attempt, but you can always upload a new version. I only mark the latest version.
I do not accept any assignment submissions by email. Use only the Blackboard Attach File. No word processor documents. Linux-format Plain Text only.
Use the exact file name given above. Upload only one single file of Linux-format plain text, not HTML, not RTF, not MSWord. No fonts, no word-processing. Linux plain text only.
The format is Linux-style plain text, i.e. using a Linux text editor such as VIM/Nano/Pico/Gedit.
NO EMAIL, WORD PROCESSOR, PDF, RTF, DOS, MICROSOFT, MACINTOSH, or HTML DOCUMENTS ACCEPTED.
No marks are awarded for submitting under the wrong assignment number or for using the wrong file name. Use the exact 16-character, lower-case name given above.
WARNING: Some inattentive students don’t read all these words. Don’t make that mistake! Be exact.
READ ALL THE WORDS. OH PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE READ ALL THE WORDS!