Aman Kumar 25711
OS Assignment
Question -2: Execute various LINUX Commands for:
i. Information Maintenance : wc, clear, cal, who, date, pwd
wc – Counts Number of Lines, Words and Bytes in a given file.
clear – Clears the Command Terminal.
cal – Displays a Calendar in Terminal.
who – Displays Information about users currently logged into the
system.
date – Displays Date and Time of the System.
pwd – pwd Stands for Present Working Directory. Displays the
Current Directory.
ii. File Management : cat, cp, rm, mv, cmp, comm, diff, find, grep,
awk
cat – Displays the Content of File.
cp – Copies File to given Directory.
rm – Remove Files/Directories from the System.
mv – Renames/ Moves the File.
cmp – Compares Two Files Byte by Byte It’s primary purpose is to
determine if two files are identical or to locate first difference
between them.
comm – It compares two files line by line and identifies line that
are unique to each file and those that are common to both.
diff – It compares two files line by line and display the differences
between them.
find – Used to find for a specific file/directory.
grep – grep stands for Global Regular Expression Prints. It
searches for given expression in files(s).
awk – It processes text line by line, allowing you to perform actions based
on patterns or conditions found within each line.
iii. Directory Management : cd, mkdir, rmdir, ls
cd – Changes Directory.
mkdir – Creates a New Directory with the name given.
rmdir – Removes Directory with the Name specified.
ls – Displays Directories or Files present in pwd.