OPERATING SYSTEMS DESIGN
UNIX BASICS&
SHELL SCRIPTING
What Is UNIX?
UNIX is an operating system (OS) Multiuser – computer system used by
more than one person at the same time
Multithreaded – multiple simultaneous use of the same program
Multitasking – handles more than one job (task) per person at the same time
Kernel The kernel of UNIX is the hub of the operating system: it
allocates time and memory to programs and handles the filestore and communications in response to system calls.
As an illustration of the way that the shell and the kernel work together, suppose a user types rm myfile (which has the effect of removing the file myfile). The shell searches the filestore for the file containing the program rm, and then requests the kernel, through system calls, to execute the program rm on myfile. When the process rm myfile has finished running, the shell then returns the UNIX prompt % to the user, indicating that it is waiting for further commands.
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
Outlines standard locations for files and directories
Gives software developers a consistent context regardless of the distribution
Helps users of one system work on another
Linux directories defined by FHS
FHS: Linux directories
Directory Structure
Some useful commands
cd - change directories (built into shell) wc - word, line, character, and byte
count echo - echo characters back (print) passwd - change password sort - sort lines of a text file ls - lists the contents of your current
working directory
Some useful commands cp - copy a file(s) ps - status of processes (what’s running) pwd - Prints the current directory. kill [-sig] %job
Send signal sig to the specified job. sig can be either numeric or symbolic. kill -l lists all available signals. By default, sig is SIGTERM (15).
read name - Reads one line from standard input and assigns it to the variable name.
Some useful commands
grep - It searches files for specified words or patterns. $ grep -i science science.txt
wc - does a word count Last but one of most important
command is MAN
Finding files
locate command Fastest method to search for files A shortcut to the slocate (or secure
locate) command find command
Used to find files using various criteria Searches the directory tree recursively,
starting from a certain directory, for files that meet criteria
which command and PATH variable
which command Used to locate files within directories
listed in the PATH variable PATH variable
Stores list of directories searched when commands are executed without an absolute or relative pathname
The structure of a mode
Interpreting permissions
SHELL A shell is a command interpreter. The shell acts as an interface between
the user and the kernel. You can put commands in a file and
execute them all at once. The script itself is just a series of
commands. Comments begin with a hash (#) and
continue to the end of the line (the first line is special)
#!/bin/sh The first line of any script must begin
with #!, followed by the name of the interpreter.
When Unix tries to execute the script, it sees the first two characters (#!) and knows that it is a script.
It then reads the rest of the line to find out which program is to execute the script.
Running a script
chmod +x {script_name} ./{script_name}
Variables Variables do not need to be declared. There is only one type of variable VAR=value Set value to variable $VAR or ${VAR} Use the value of the
variable COLOR=yellow
echo This looks $COLORish echo This seems ${COLOR}ish
Special variables Command-line arguments $1 refers to the first command-line argument
(after the name of the script), $2 refers to the second one, and so forth, up to $9.
If you have more than nine command-line arguments, you can use the shift command: this discards the first command-line argument, and bumps the remaining ones up by one position: $2 becomes $1, $8 becomes $7, and so forth.
Special variables (contd.) The variable $0 (zero) contains the
name of the script $* (star) and $@ (at) Each of these
expands to a string containing all of the command-line arguments, as if you had used $1 $2 $3...
inside “double quotes”: $* behaves in the normal way, whereas $@ creates a separate double-quoted string
$# contains the number of command-line arguments that were given.
Other special variables $? gives the exit status of the last
command that was executed. $- lists all of the options with which sh
was invoked. $$ holds the PID of the current process. $! holds the PID of the last command
that was executed in the background $IFS (Input Field Separator) determines
how sh splits strings into words.
Quoting Single quotes : anything inside them (except a single
quote) is quoted. A backslash inside single quotes also loses its special
meaning Double quotes : preserve spaces and most special
characters. However, variables and backquoted expressions are expanded and replaced with their value.
Backquotes : the expression is evaluated as a command
A backslash (“\'') removes any special meaning from the character that follows.
The backslash is itself special, so to escape it, just double it: \\.
Flow control #!/bin/sh
myname=`whoami` if [ $myname = root ]; then
echo "Welcome to FooSoft 3.0" else
echo "You must be root to run this script"
exit 1 fi
While & For
while condition; do commands done
for i in foo bar baz "do be do"; do echo "$i"
done
I/O redirection “< filename” Connect standard input
to the file filename. This allows you to have a command read from the file.
“> filename” Connect standard output to the file filename. This allows you to save the output of a command to a file. If the file does not exist, it is created. If it does exist, it is emptied before anything happens.
I/O redirection (contd.)
“>> filename” Connects standard output to the file filename. Unlike >, however, the output of the command is appended to filename.
“command1 | command2” Creates a pipeline: the standard output of command1 is connected to the standard input of command2.
Functions
When a group of commands occurs several times in a script, it is useful to define a function.
name () { commands }
Useful utilities
basename : basename pathname prints the last component of pathname. basename /foo/bar/baz prints baz
dirname : dirname pathname prints all but the last component of pathname, that is the directory part: pathname dirname /foo/bar/baz prints /foo/bar
[
/bin/[ is another name for /bin/test. It evaluates its arguments as a
boolean expression, and exits with an exit code of 0 if it is true, or 1 if it is false
[ (contd.) -e filename
True if filename exists. -d filename
True if filename exists and is a directory. -r filename
True if filename exists and is readable. s1 = s2
True if the strings s1 and s2 are identical. s1 != s2
True if the strings s1 and s2 are not identical. n1 -eq n2
True if the numbers n1 and n2 are equal. n1 -ne n2
True if the numbers n1 and n2 are not equal. expr1 -a expr2
True if both expressions, expr1 and expr2 are true.
SED (Strem EDitor)
What is Sed ? A “non-interactive” text editor that
is called from the unix command line.
Input text flows through the program, is modified, and is directed to standard output.
SED (contd.)
sed -e '/^#/d’ sed -e 's/foo/bar/g'
Regular ExpressionsRegular Expressions
Sed uses regular expressions to match patterns in the input text, and thenperform operations on those patterns. ^ matches the beginning of the line $ matches the end of the line . Matches any single character\ Escapes any metacharacter that follows, including itself.(character)* Match arbitrarily many occurences of (character)(character)? Match 0 or 1 instance of (character)(character)+ Match 1 or more instances of (character)[abcdef] Match any character enclosed in [ ] (in this instance, a b c d e or f)[^abcdef] Match any character NOT enclosed in [ ] (character)\{m,n\} Match m-n repetitions of (character)(character)\{m,\} Match m or more repetitions of (character)(character)\{,n\} Match n or less (possibly 0) repetitions of (character)(character)\{n\} Match exactly n repetitions of (character)\{n,m\} range of occurrences, n and m are integers \(expression\) Group operator.expression1|expression2 Matches expression1 or expression 2. () groups regular expressions
Regular Expressions (character classes)
The following character classes are short-hand for matching special characters.
[:alnum:] Printable characters (includes white space)
[:alpha:] Alphabetic characters
[:blank:] Space and tab characters
[:cntrl:] Control characters
[:digit:] Numeric characters
[:graph:]Printable and visible (non-space) characters
[:lower:] Lowercase characters
[:print:] Alphanumeric characters
[:punct:] Punctuation characters
[:space:]Whitespace characters
[:upper:]Uppercase characters
[:xdigit:] Hexadecimal digits
AWK
Awk (and its derivatives, nawk and gawk) is a full-fledged scripting language.
Inside sh scripts, it is generally used for its ability to split input lines into fields and print one or more fields.
AWK (contd.)
BEGIN actions performed before first input line processed
END actions performed after last input line processed
AWK (contd.) awk -F : '{print $1, $3 }' /etc/passwd The -F : option says that the input
records are separated by colons. By default, awk uses whitespace as the field separator.
Sum up column 2 and print the total{total += $2} END { print total}
AWK Example
Print fields in reverse order one per line
{
for (i=NF; i>=1; i--)
print $i;
}
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