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Shell Scripts for Basic Programming Tasks

The document contains a series of shell scripts for various tasks including finding the largest of three integers, checking for leap years, printing multiplication tables, comparing strings, and managing files and directories. It also includes a menu-driven program for arithmetic operations and scripts for displaying directory contents and patterns. Additionally, it discusses counting logged-in users and running jobs after logout using the 'nohup' command.

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Shell Scripts for Basic Programming Tasks

The document contains a series of shell scripts for various tasks including finding the largest of three integers, checking for leap years, printing multiplication tables, comparing strings, and managing files and directories. It also includes a menu-driven program for arithmetic operations and scripts for displaying directory contents and patterns. Additionally, it discusses counting logged-in users and running jobs after logout using the 'nohup' command.

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Exercise:

3.3 Write a shell Script to determine largest among three integer number.
Script3:
echo “enter three integer number”
read a
read b
read c
if [ $a –ge $b ]
then
if [ $a –ge $c ]
then
echo “$a is largest number”
else
echo “$c is largest number”
fi
elif [ $b –ge $c ]
then
echo “$b is largest number”
else
echo “$c is largest number”
fi

3.4 Write a shell script to determine a given year is leap year or not.
Script4:
echo “enter any year”
read y
if [ $(expr $y % 100) –eq 0 ]
then
if [$(expr $y % 400) –eq 0 ]
then
echo “$y is leap year”
else
echo “$y is leap year”
fi
elif [ $(expr $y % 4 ) –eq 0 ]
then
echo “$y is leap year”
else

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echo “$y is leap year”
fi

3.5 Write a shell script to print multiplication table of given number using while
statement.
Script5:
echo “enter any num”
read n
i=1;
while [ $i –le $n ]
do
m=$(expr $n \* $i);
echo “$n * $i = $m”
i=$(expr $i + 1);
done

3.6 Write a shell script to compare two string.


Script6:
echo “enter two string”
read a
read b
if [ -z $a ]
then
echo “ First String is empty: Null String”
fi
if [ -z $b ]
then
echo “ First String is empty: Null String”
fi
if [ $a = $b ]
then
echo “Strings are equal: strings Matched”
else
echo “Strings are not equal: Strings not match”
fi

3.7 Write a shell script to read and check the directory exists or not, if not make
directory.
Script7:
echo “enter name of directory”
read dir
if [ -d $dir ]
then
echo “Directory $dir Exits!”
else
mkdir $dir

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fi

3.8 Write a shell script to read and check the directory exists or not, if not make file.
Script7:
echo “enter name of file”
read filename
if [ -f $filename ]
then
echo “File $filename Exits!”
else
touch $filename
fi

3.9 Write a shell script to implement menu driven program to perform all arithmetic
operation using case statement.
Script9:
echo “enter two integer values”
read a
read b
echo –e “Menu \n 1 for Addition \n 2 for Substraction \n 3 for Multiplication \n 4 for
Division \n 5 for Remainder”
echo “enter choice”
read ch
case $ch in
1) echo “Sum=$(expr $a + $b)”;;
2) echo “Substraction=$(expr $a - $b)”;;
3) echo “Multiplication=$(expr $a \* $b)”;;
4) echo “Division=$(expr $a / $b)”;;
5) echo “Remainder=$(expr $a % $b)”;;
6) echo “invalid Choice:Try Again!”
esac

3.10 Write a shell script to do:


(i). display list of directory contents
(ii). Name of current directory
(iii). Who is logged on
(iv). Long listing of directory contents
according to choice of user.
Script10:
echo –e “Menu \n 1 for listing directory content \n 2 for print name of current
directory \n 3 for Show who is logged on \n 4 Show directory content using long
listing format “
echo “enter your choice “
read ch
case $ch in
1) ls;;

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2) pwd;;
3) who;;
4) ls –l;;
*) echo “Invalid Choice: Try Again!!”
esac

3.11 Write a shell script to print following pattern.


*
**
***
****
Script11 :
echo “ enter number of rows”
read n
i=1
while [ $i –le $n ]
do
j=1
while [ $j –le $i ]
do
echo –n “*”
j=$(expr $j + 1)
done
echo
i=$(expr $i + 1)
done

3.12 Write a shell script to read the file word by word with serial number.
Script12:
i=1
for line in $( cat file1)
do
echo –e “$i \t ”
echo –e “$line \n”
i=$(expr $i + 1 )
done

3.13 Write a shell script to read the file word by word with serial number.
Script12:
i=1
while read line
do
echo –e “$i \t ”
echo –e “$line \n”
i=$(expr $i + 1 )
done < file

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3.14 Write a shell script to do
(i). counting number of user logged in
(ii). Printing column list of your current directory
(iii). Running your job after logging out.
Script12:
echo “ Number of users logged in”
i=0
who > file # result of who command is appended to file
while read line
do
i=$(expr $i + 1)
done < file
echo “ $i”
i=1
for line in $( cat file)
do
echo –e “$i \t ”
echo –e “$line \n”
i=$(expr $i + 1 )
done
nohup sort file

3.5 running job after logout


nohup
used to continue runing job / task after running out and appending output to
[Link] output file by default.
Usage: nohup [command_name]

3.6 Important Linux commands

3.6.1 date

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