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Date : 22/09/2025

Operating system assignment


Name : Harshit maravi Roll no.: 25745
Course : [Link].(H) CS Section : A

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.

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