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Make another directory inside the `unixstuff` directory called `backups`

**Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
**Answer:** * `mkdir unixstuff/backups` *

###Exercise 1b

Use the commands `cd`, `ls` and `pwd` to explore the file system.

(Remember, if you get lost, type `cd` by itself to return to your home-directory)

**Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
**Answer:** * `cd` - Change current directory to your HOME directory; `ls` - list a directory contents; `pwd` - print name of current/working directory;*

###Exercise 2a

Create a backup of your `science.txt` file by copying it to a file called `science.bak`

**Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
**Answer:** * `cp science.txt science.bak` *

###Exercise 2b

Create a directory called `tempstuff` using `mkdir`, then remove it using the `rmdir` command.

**Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
**Answer:** * `mkdir tempstuff`; `rmdir tempstuff` *

###Exercise 3a

Using the above method, create another file called `list2` containing the following fruit: orange, plum, mango, grapefruit. Read the contents of `list2`.

**Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
**Answer:** *
`cat > list2`
orange
plum
mango
grapefruit
`cat list2`
orange
plum
mango
grapefruit
*

###Exercise 3b

Using pipes, display all lines of `list1` and `list2` containing the letter 'p', and sort the result.

**Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
**Answer:** * `cat list1 list2 | grep p | sort` *

###Exercise 5a

Try changing access permissions on the file `science.txt` and on the directory `backups`.

Use `ls -l` to check that the permissions have changed.

**Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
**Answer:** * `chmod go-rwx science.txt` *

##Shell questions

1. What option with the command `rm` is required to remove a directory?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `rm -r dirname` `-r` remove directories and their contents recursively *
1. What is the command used to display the manual pages for any command?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `man COMANDNAME` or `COMANDNAME --help` *
1. What command will show the first 5 lines of an input file?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `head -5 filename` *
1. What command can be used to rename a file?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `rm filename` *
1. What option can we given to `ls` to show the hidden files?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * ` ls -a` *
1. What will the command `cat -n file` do?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** *Number all output lines*
1. What will the command `echo -n hello` do?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `-n` do not output the trailing newline*
1. What command will display s list of the users who currently logged in in the system?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `who` *
1. How do you change password on your account?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `passwd` then enter current password, then new pass *
1. How can you list a file in reverse order?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `sort -r filename` *
1. What does the `less` command do?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** *Write a file to a screen by a page at a time*
1. With `less` how do you navigate?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** *You can navigate with arrows, pgup, pgdn and spase;
e ^E j ^N CR - Forward one line (or N lines).
y ^Y k ^K ^P - Backward one line (or N lines).
f ^F ^V SPACE - Forward one window (or N lines).
b ^B ESC-v - Backward one window (or N lines).
z - Forward one window (and set window to N).
w - Backward one window (and set window to N).
ESC-SPACE - Forward one window, but don't stop at end-of-file.
d ^D - Forward one half-window (and set half-window to N).
u ^U - Backward one half-window (and set half-window to N).
ESC-) RightArrow - Left one half screen width (or N positions).
ESC-( LeftArrow - Right one half screen width (or N positions).
F Forward forever; like "tail -f".
*
1. What command will display the running processes of the current user?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * ` ps -U user -u user u` *
1. What command can be used to find the process(es) consuming the most CPU?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * ` ps aux --sort=-pcpu ` *

##vi questions
1. How do we save a file in `vi` and continue working?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * in COMMAND mode `:w filename` *
1. What command/key is used to start entering text?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** *in COMMAMD mode `i` *
1. What are the different modes the editor can be in?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * COMMAND or INSERT mode *
1. What command can be used to place the cursor at the beginning of line 4?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** *in COMMAMD mode :4 *
1. What will `dd` command do (in command-mode)?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** *delete the whole line thet cursor is at*
1. How do you undo the most recent changes?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `u` *
1. How do you move back one word?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * CTRL + left arrow*

##The C Language and Make tool Questions

1. How do you use `gcc` to only produce the `.o` file? What is the difference between generating only the `.o` file, and building the `hello` executable done in the previous compilation above?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `gcc -c hello.c -o hello.o` *
1. Give the command for compiling with `debug` enabled instead of normal compilation for the two examples shown in Listing 2 and Listing 3. Explain how to turn debugging on/off for the two cases.
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `gcc -DDEBUG Listing_2.c -o Listing_2` by this way you defined variable `DEBUG`. After that compelator include debugging part to executable file. In Listing 3 debugging part are always in executable file, but you should define variable `debug` during runing the program*
1. Give a brief pros and cons discussion for the two methods to add debug code shown in Listing 2 and Listing 3.
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** *Listing_2 is an example of "Conditional debugging": it's mean that you should define a variable during compilation.
listing_3 - example of "Selectable debugging": it's mean that you should define a variable during runing the program*
1. Provide the command for generating the *map* file. Which of the `gcc` tools is responsible for producing a *map* file?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** *gcc listing2.c -o listing2 -Wl,-Map=listing2.map*
1. What is the content of each of the sections in a *map* file. Explain briefly.
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
1. Rewrite `hello.c` to produce entries in the *map* file for `.data`, `.bss`, and `.rodata`. Hint: This can be done by adding one variable for each type to the file.
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** *
#include <stdio.h>
int w; /* .bss */
int i = 1; /* .data */
const int S = 3; /* .rodata */
int main(void)
{
printf("Hello, world!\n");
return 0;
}
*
1. Add the following function to `hello.c`: `double multiply(double x1, double x2)`, which returns `x1*x2`. Use `gcc` to generate an assembly code listing for the program, and examine the assembly code. What assembly instructions are used to do this? Repeat this task, but now replace `double` with `float`. Explain!
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * ` gcc -O2 -S -c hello.c ` *
1. How does `make` know if a file must be recompiled?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** *if the executable file is older then any of source files, than it should be recompiled*
1. Provide a `make` command to use a file named `mymakefile` instead of the default `makefile`.
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `make -f mymakefile` *
1. How do you implement an *include guard*, and why is it needed?
- **Answer:** *YOUR ANSWER HERE*
- **Answer:** * `#include file.h` used to avoid the problem of double inclusion when dealing with the include directive. *

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