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Basic Unix And Basic Shell Scripting
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Course Objectives
The participant will learn Unix Introduction Unix file related commands Unix text manipulation commands Environment variables The vi-editor Shell programming Awk programming
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Introduction to Unix Features of Unix System:
1. Simple design, organization and functioning2. Portability3. Background processing4. Hierarchical File System5. Multi-user6. Multi-tasking 7. Security8. Interactive Operating System 9. Communication facilities10. Utilities
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Introduction to Unix
Utility Software:1. Text Manipulation tools: cut, grep, tr, etc.2. Advanced filters: sed, awk, etc.3. Document Formatting tools: troff, nroff, etc.4. Various Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, etc.5. Interactive Calculators : bc, dc, etc.6. Advanced tools : lex, yacc.
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Unix File System
The Unix file system is the structure in which all the information on your computer is stored.
It has hierarchical file structure, where each directory can contain files, as well as other directories.
It looks like an upside down tree. Unix looks at everything as a file. At the top is the root directory, represented by a
forward slash (/). At the children node of it is a set of common
directories in the Linux system, such as /bin, /dev, /home, etc.
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Unix File System
The diagram shows the Linux file structure /
bin/ home/ etc/ dev/ …
itp1/ itp2/ … test1.sh test2.sh …
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Unix File System
In Windows file systems, drive letters represent different storage devices like A: is a floppy drive, C: is a hard disk, etc. In Linux, all storage devices are in the same file system hierarchy.
Windows file systems uses backslash (\) to separate directory names, whereas Linux uses forward slash (/) for the same.
Every file and directory in a Linux system has permissions and ownership associated with it.
File names have suffixes in Windows, whereas in Linux you can use them as conventions.
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Unix File System
The chunk of the disk is divided into blocks (1024-bytes block, or 4096-bytes block, etc.) in multiple of 512 bytes in size.
These blocks are organized into four groupings- boot block, superblock, inode blocks and data blocks.
FS1
FS2FS3
Bootblock
Superblock inode list Data blocks …..
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UNIX Users
Users
1. Super user2. Owner3. Group4. Others
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Introduction to Unix
Logging on and Logging off.Step 1: telnet <System Address>Step 2: login : ravindra
Step 3: password : ****** Login incorrect Step 4: login : ravindra Step 5: password : ******
Step 6: $ Command prompt to execute commandsStep 7: $ logout
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Unix Shells
The Bourne shell /bin/sh (written by S. R. Bourne). Along came the people from UCB and the C-shell
/bin/csh was born. Into this shell they put several concepts which were new, (the majority of these being job control and aliasing) and managed to produce a shell that was much better for interactive use.
Eventually David Korn from AT&T had the bright idea to sort out this mess and the Korn shell /bin/ksh made its appearance. The Korn shell became part of System V but had one major problem; unlike the rest of the UNIX shells it wasn't free, you had to pay AT&T for it.
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Unix Shells
Also at about this time the GNU project was underway and they decided that they needed a free shell, they also decided that they wanted to make this new shell POSIX compatible, thus bash (the Bourne again shell) was born.
Like the Korn shell bash was based upon the Bourne shells language and like the Korn shell, it also pinched features from the C shell and other operating systems.
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Unix Shells
The Bourne Shell The Bourne shell is the original UNIX shell program.
It is very widely used. You can start the Bourne shell—if it hasn't been set as your default startup shell—by typing "sh" or "/bin/sh" at the command prompt. This will not spawn a new shell window, but rather will just change your current shell to the Bourne shell.
The Bourne shell supports conditional branching in the form of if/then/else statements. In addition, the Bourne shell supports case statements and loops (for, while, and until).
The Bourne shell uses the $ as a prompt.
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Unix Shells
The Korn shell The Korn shell is a much newer variation of the
Bourne shell. It supports everything the Bourne shell does, and adds features not available in the Bourne shell. The Korn shell is not a standard offering in UNIX installations. If you have the Korn shell, you can run it by typing ksh or /bin/ksh at the shell prompt. A public-domain version of the Korn shell, called pdksh.
The Korn shell was originally written by David Korn and is copyrighted by AT&T.
The programming structure of the Korn shell is very similar to that of the Bourne shell. The Korn shell, however, is more interactive.
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Unix Shells
The C shell The C shell is a very commonly used shell. Its
programming structure closely resembles that of the programming language "C."
The C shell uses the "%" as a prompt. The C shell supports all of the features that the
Bourne shell supports, and has a more natural syntax for programming.
The C shell is more interactive than the Bourne shell, with additional features that aren't available in older shells.
The configuration of the C shell is controlled by the .rc and the .login files.
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Unix Shells
The tc shell The tc shell is a more modern variation of the
C shell. It reads the same configuration files that the C
shell uses. Tcsh contains command line editing
keystrokes that the C shell is missing, and has more "modern" conveniences that the C shell lacks.
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Unix Shells
The Bourne-Again shell The Bourne-Again shell is a variation of the
Bourne shell. It is commonly used in Linux, but is widely
available in other standard UNIX distributions. The Bourne Again shell is another modification of
the Bourne shell, and uses the $ as a prompt. To start the Bourne Again shell, type "bash" at the
shell prompt. The behavior and environment of the Bourne
Again shell is controlled by the .bashrc file, which you'll find as a hidden file in your home directory.
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Unix Shells
Unix Shell application comparison table Application sh csh ksh bash tcsh Job control N Y Y Y Y Aliases N Y Y Y Y Input/Output redirection Y N Y Y N Command history N Y Y Y Y Command line editing N N Y Y Y Vi Command line editing N N Y Y Y Underlying Syntax sh csh ksh sh csh
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Basic commands in Unix
$ who The command shows who is logged on
$ who am I The command shows who are you
$ who \> am \> i \
We can type a command over two or more lines. A backslash character before the end of the line followed by a new line is taken to be continuation of the line.
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Commands In Unix
$ man The command formats and displays on-line
manual pages. The manual pages are divided into logical
grouping of the commands called the sections. Sections are numbered from 1 through 9. For example, commands are 1, system calls are 2, library function are 3, file formats are 5, & management commands are 8.
If section is specified, man only looks in that section of the manual.
The command man 2 open will display the manual for the system call open.
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Commands In Unix
Option Description –k searches a set of database files
containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on
the standard output. -f gives one line introduction to the
command (only complete word matches are displayed).
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Basic commands in Unix
$ date The command prints or sets the system date and
time $ date –r TestFile
It displays the last modification time of the file “TestFile”
$ date string The super user can invoke the date command with
a numeric argument to set the system date. This argument is usually an eight-character string of
the form MMDDhhmm (month, day, hour in 24-hour format, minutes), and optionally followed by a two-digit year string.
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Basic commands in Unix
The command can be used with suitable format specifiers as arguments. Each format is preceded by a + symbol, followed by the % operator, and a single character describing the format.
Sequence Interpretation +%a abbreviated weekday name (Mon .. Sun) +%b abbreviated month name (Jan .. Dec) +%d day of month (01 .. 31) +%r time (12- hour) +%T time (24- hour) +%y last two digits of year (00 .. 99) +%Ddate (mm/dd/yy)
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Commands In Unix
$ ls The command lists contents of directories
Option Description -l list in long format -C multicolumn output
-F indicates type of file by /, * -R recursive listing of all subdirectories
encountered -a list all files including hidden files
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Commands In Unix
$ cat The command concatenates files and prints
on the standard output $ cat file1 file2 …
It displays contents of all files specified on the command line one below the other
$ cat > file It creates a new file by accepting text from
the standard input Press CTRL-d to save and exit the file
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Commands In Unix
$ mkdir [-p] dirname The command makes a directory dirname. The dirname can contain the full path prefix of
the directory to be created. When executed with –p option, it won’t give
any error if the directory dirname already exists.
When executed with option –p, it makes parent directories in the path if needed (if any parent directory in the path is not available) .
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Commands In Unix
cd [directory] change working directory to the directory if
specified or to the home directory otherwise
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Commands In Unix
$ pwd The command prints name of your current
working directory
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Commands In Unix
$cp Copies files and directories
$ cp file1 file2 It copies file1 to file2
$ cp file1 file2 … dest_directory It copies multiple files in the specified
existing directory $ cp -r directory1 directory2 … dest_directory
Recursively copies files from directory1, directory2 etc. to the dest_directory
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Commands In Unix
$ mv The command changes name of your file or
moves your file to the specified destination path $ mv file1 new-file
It renames file1 as new-file $ mv file1 file2 … dest_directory
It moves multiple files to the specified existing directory
$ mv directory1 directory2 … dest_directory moves one or more directory subtrees to an
existing or new dest_directory
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Commands In Unix
$ rm The command is used to get rid of
unwanted files/directories $ rm [-i] file …
It is interactive removal (option –i) of specified files.
$ rm -r directory … It is recursive deletion of all files within the
specified directories and also the directories themselves.
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Commands In Unix
Wild characters ^ beginning of the line $ end of the line ? Matches any character [ ] set of characters character hyphen(-)
represents range { } a number enclosed in it specifies the
number of times the preceding expression is to be repeated
! represents negation
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Unix Users
Users
1. Super user2. Owner3. Group4. Others
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Commands In Unix
$ chmod The command changes file permission.
Using absolute value. 4 - Read, 2 - Write, 1 – Execute
$ chmod 740 zz
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Commands In Unix
Using Symbolic Mode Code Meaning a all
u userg groupo other+ add- remove= assign
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Commands In Unix $ umask
The command changes initial Permission of newly created file.
The value of the argument can be calculated by subtracting the mode you want as default from the current default mode.
Assume the current default mode is 0666 and you want it as 0644 then 666 – 644 = 022 will be the parameter which we have to pass with umask command.
$umask 0 – sets default mode which is 0666.
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Text Manipulation Commands
Filters : Filters : A filter is a shell command which takes
input from the standard input, processes it, and sends its output to the standard output.
At run time, the system supplies data to the filter as standard input. This std input file can not be altered by the program.
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Text Manipulation Commands
An important characteristic of filter is that all the input, output and error channels have the same structure. They are all unstructured byte streams data delimited by an end-of-data marker.
Some widely used filters in Unix are: sort, grep, and wc.
Filters allows the users to create the complex programs from the simpler programs.
The commands cp, mv and cd are not filter commands.
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Text Manipulation Commands
wc : word count. $ wc -[wlc] [filename] head : displays first ‘n’ lines $ head -[n] [filename] tail : displays last ‘n’ lines $ tail -[n] [filename] split : divides files horizontally $ split -[n] [filename] we get m subfiles of size n (xaa, xab,…).
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Text Manipulation Commands
$ cut -[cfd] [filename]
-c characters-f field no-d field separator
$ cut -c2-5 samplecuts characters from 2 to 5 from file sample. continued...
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Text Manipulation Commands
$ cut -c1,2 file cuts 1st and 2nd characters from file.
$ cut -d” “ -f1-2 file cuts first 2 fields of the file.
$ cut -c2- names cuts from 2nd char to the end of line.
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Text Manipulation Commands
paste: join files column-wise $ paste -d[field separator] [list of files]
uniq: removes duplicate lines from a sorted file $ uniq –[dcf] [file]
-d only print duplicate lines-c prefix lines with number
of occurences
-f2 avoid comparing first two fields.
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Text Manipulation Commands
sort: Sorting text files Self study. Try to find out different options for this
command using man pages.
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Text Manipulation Commands
tee: read from standard input and write to standard output and files
$ls –l | tee dircontents displays the directory contents on the
standard output as well as stores them to file dircontents.
nl: number lines of files nl –[options] [files]
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Text Manipulation Commands
tr : Translating Characters.$ tr [options] < [file]-d : deletes specified characters.-cd : do not delete specified characters.-s : substitute characters.
$ tr “abc” “ABC” < samp : replaces all occurrences of a with A, b with B, c with C.
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Commands In Unix grep: it is called as global regular
expression pattern. It searches for a given pattern in the file(s)
$ grep -[cvnl] [pattern] [files] Option Description
-c counts the total no of lines containing that pattern. -v displays all the lines not containing that
pattern. -n displays lines with line no. -l displays file names containing the pattern.
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Commands In Unix
fgrep: fast searching for fixed strings It handles fixed character strings as text patterns. It cannot process wild-card matches, character
classes. egrep: used to search with full regular
expressions. It is called as extended grep.
egrep ‘ (Ravi|Ravindra) Joshi ‘ employee.txt This will search for Ravi Joshi as well as for
Ravindra Joshi
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Commands In Unix
$ ps It shows process status.
Display the attribute of a process. Options
$ ps -f --> Full option $ ps -f -u itp5 --> gives processes of user itp5 $ ps -a --> all users processes. $ ps -e --> all processes on the
system including system processes.
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Commands In Unix
$ kill The command is used to terminate a
process. The command uses one or more PIDs as its arguments.
$ Kill 105 It will terminate job with PID 105.
$ kill -9 121 The option –9 indicates sure kill signal.
$ kill $! The system variable $! Stores the PID of the
last background job.
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Commands In Unix
To execute any process in background just use & at the end of the command. $ sh test &
To bring the process in foreground use fg To check out jobs currently running in
background use command --> jobs $ jobs
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The Environment
The Unix system is controlled by a number of shell variables that are separately set by the system some during boot sequence, and some after logging in. These variables are called system variables or environment variables.
The set statement displays the complete list of all these variables. Built-in variable names are defined in uppercase.
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The Environment
The PATH : is a variable that instructs the shell about the route it should follow to locate any executable command.
The HOME : when you log in, UNIX normally places you in a directory named after your login name.
The MAIL : determines where all incoming mail addressed to the user is to be stored.
The PS1 and PS2 : PS1 - your command prompt and PS2-Multi-line command string.
The SHELL: determines the type of shell that a user sees on logging in.
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The Environment
.bash_profile : the script executed during login time. Every time you make changes to it, you should log out and log in again.
The .bash_profile must be located in your home directory, and it is executed after /etc/profile, the universal profile for all users. Universal environment settings are kept by the administrator in /etc/profile so that they are available to all users.
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The Environment
ALIASES : it allows you to assign short-hand names for commands you may be using quite frequently. This is done with the alias statement. Consider following ex. $ alias l=‘ls -l’
Aliases are listed when the alias statement is used without argument.
The alias feature also allows you to incorporate positional parameters as variables in an alias. For ex. $ alias showdir=‘cd $1 ; ls -l’
When you want to see the contents of the directory /home/itp5 use the alias as $ showdir /home/itp5
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The Environment
Setting the Environment variable: Environment variables can provide a way of
storing information that you need to use often from the shell.
Assigning a value to a variable will set an environment variable temporarily. For example:
$ x=50 This example will set value 50 to the variable x.
Use the export (discussed latter) command to export the value to the shell so that it can be propagated to other shells you may open.
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The Environment
The variable will not be available if you exit the shell. Add these variables to configuration files (discussed earlier) to set them permanently.
If you no longer want a variable to be set, you can use the unset command to erase its value.
For example $ unset x This command will cause x to have no value set.
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The Environment
By default,the values stored in shell variables are local to the shell, i.e., they are available only in the shell in which they are defined. They are not passed on to a child shell. But the shell can also export those variables recursively to all child processes so that, once defined, they are available globally. This is done with the export command.
For example, consider a simple script $vi exporttest.sh
– echo the value of x is $x– x=50– echo the new value of x is $x
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The Environment
Now at the command prompt, first assign value 25 to x, and then execute the above script and observe, we will get following output
$ x=25 $ ./exporttest.sh
the value of x is the new value of x is 50
$ echo $x $ 25 Because x is a local variable in the login shell, its
value can’t be accessed in the script exporttest.sh.
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The Environment We will use the export command and observe the
change. $ x=25 $ export x $ ./exporttest.sh
the value of x is 25 the new value of x is 50
$ echo $x 25
When x is exported, its assigned value 25 is available in the script. A reassignment (x=50) in the script which is a sub-shell, is not seen in the parent shell which executed the script.
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The Environment
Executing commands from a file: . (dot) If we have a list of commands in a file sample
then we can execute it using command . sample
It is like executing a shell script, but with following difference: Standard shell scripts cause a new sub shell
to be created to run the script. The dot command, uses the same shell and it just needs redirection to take the commands from the file instead of from the keyboard.
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The Environment
The dot command can change the value of a shell variable in the current shell.
The export command lets you pass a variable’s value from parent shell to child shell, but there is no comparable mechanism for passing a value from child to parent.
The dot command, however, creates no child process, so any changes it produces apply to the original shell.
It also doesn’t require the script to have executable permission.
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The Environment
For example, consider the simple script $vi dottest.sh
– echo the value of x is $x– x=50– echo the new value of x is $x
Now we will observe the change by exporting variable x and executing the script using dot command.
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The Environment
$ x=25 $ export x $ . dottest.sh $ the value of x is 25 $ the new value of x is 50 $ echo $x $ 50
When x is exported, its assigned value 25 is available in the script. A reassignment (x=50) in the script has also changed the value of x in the parent shell which executed the script.
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The vi Editor
A vi session begins by invoking the command “vi” with or without a filename.
$ viAfter executing this command you will get a full empty screen, each line beginning with a ~(tilde). The last line in the screen is reserved for some commands that you can enter to act on the text. This line is also used by the system to display messages.
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Modes of operation The three different modes of operations are:1. Command mode : This is the mode where you
can pass the commands to act on the text, using most of the keys of the keyboard.
Example: Key “x” is used to delete the character at the cursor position.
You can switch to this mode using “ESC” key.
contd..
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Modes of operation2. Insert (Input) mode: To enter the text, you have
to enter into input mode. Press key “i” to enter into insert mode from command mode.
3. ex mode or line mode : You have to save your file or switch to another file or make a global substitution in the file. You then have to use ex mode, where you can enter the instruction in the last line of the screen. To enter into this mode press “ESC” & “:” Example: ex mode command “:wq” will save the current file and will quit from the editor.
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Text insertion commands
Command Description
1. i inserts text at cursor position2. a inserts text after cursor position3. I inserts text at beginning of line4. A inserts text after end of line5. o opens line below current line to
insert text6. O opens line above current line to
insert text
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Cursor movement commands
Command Description
1. h left by one character2. l right by one character3. k up by one line4. j down by one line5. w right by one word6. b left by one word7. 0 beginning of line8. $ end of line
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Text deletion commands
Command Description1. x character under cursor2. X character before cursor3. dw word4. d0 beginning to cursor position5. d$ cursor position to end of line6. [n]dd n lines from current line7. [n]dd p p will paste deleted lines to
current cursor position. Equivalent to Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V [in Windows]
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Text copy commands
Command Description1. y character2. y0 beginning to cursor position3. y$ cursor position to end of line4. yw word5. [n]yy n lines from current line in to
the buffer 6. [n]yy p p will paste copied lines to
current cursor position. Equivalent to Ctrl-
C and Ctrl-V [in windows]
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Text modification commands
Command Description1. nc [space] overwrites next n characters 2. c0 overwrites the portion
between beginning of line to cursor position
3. c$ overwrites the portion between cursor to end of line
4. cw overwrites current word5. :[addr1,addr2]s/pattern1/pattern2[/g]
globally replaces pattern1 with pattern2 on the specified lines
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File related commandsCommand Description
1. ZZ or :wq save and exit2. :w save & continue editing3. :q! quit without saving4. :r filnam insert file filnam 5. :[addr1,addr2]w filname write the lines between line
number addr1 and line number addr2 in the file filname
contd..
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File related commands Command Description
1. “a4yy copy 4 lines into buffer a2. “ap paste contents of buffer a to
current cursor position.Maximum 26 buffers are
available buffer having names “a” to “z”
1. ctrl-v select particular columns 2. “byy copy selected into buffer b 3. “bp paste contents of buffer b to
current cursor position. contd..
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File related commands Command Description1. 1,$s/source/target/ substitute string source by
string target from line number 1 to last line
2. u undo last change on the line3. U undo last changes on the line4. Ctrl-R redo the undone changes.5. e edit multiple files 6. e# return to original file7. rew back to first file in command line
contd..
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Visual mode commands
Command Description
1. v_u converts the character to lower case
2. v_U converts the character to upper case
3. sp splitting window 4. Ctrl-w toggle between windows5. <Ctrl-w>j moves to lower window6. <Ctrl-w>k moves to upper window
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Customizing vi
The set command When the string “no” is prefixed to any option,
it indicates that the option is inoperative.Command Description
1. :Set all displays all set option2. :set autoindent does automatic indentation3. :set number shows all line duly
numbered4. :set showmatchhelps to locate matching
brackets5. :set tabstop=5 sets tab=5 for display
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Advanced Commands The .exrc File and exinit : all sets, maps and
abbreviations can be conveniently stored in the file $HOME/.exrc
Vi looks for this file on startup and executes the instructions as ex mode command
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Shell Programming
When a group of commands has to be executed regularly, they are stored in a file. All such files are called shell scripts, shell programs, or shell procedures.
There is no restrictions on extension of these files, but conventionally extension .sh is used for a shell program.
You can use the vi editor to create the shell script.
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Shell Programming
You can execute the shell scripts using either command sh or by just typing shell script name at the prompt (make sure that you have execute permission).
$ sh test.sh $ test.sh $ ./test.sh
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Shell Programming User-created Shell Variables :
variable=value => will assign value to variable.$variable => will print value of the variable.
Command echo : it displays message on the screen. Consider following ex.$ var=hello$ echo $var “$var” ‘$var’with this the output will be $ hello hello $var
2. read var => will read value from keyboard to var.$ read var
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Shell Programming Operators
Arithmetic : + - / * %Relational : -lt -le -gt -ge –eq –ne Logical : -a -o
Expressionexpr 10 + 20
Assignment statement.x=77
Command substitution: when a command is enclosed in back quotes, the command is replaced by the output it produces. Ex. The command
x=`expr $x + 1` will set x=78
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Shell Programming
Shell Metacharacters: Wildcard substitution: * ? [] Redirection: > >> < 2> << Piping: | Command substitution: ` ` Sequential commands: semicolon (;) Inserting comment: # Command grouping: () parenthesis
Ex. (date; cat employee.txt) > Report This will copy contents of employee.txt
with current date to a file Report.
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Shell Programming
Creating a here document (<< operator): It allows a shell script to get its input from the
same file that holds the script. Data used this way is said to be in a here
document. To create a here document, we use the <<
operator. Any command using standard input can also have
the input from a here document. The here document symbol (<<) followed by the
data, and a delimiter (the termination string).
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Shell Programming
The example for here document $ wc << EOF >This is for testing the here document. It will
>give us the count of lines, words and characters >till the terminator given after here document >symbol, the terminator which is the EOF.
We will get output of the command as number of lines, words, characters till first occurrence of the EOF symbol in the script
We can use any string as a terminator.
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Shell Programming
Debugging the scripts Command set is used for debugging purpose The –v option of sh causes the shell to echo each
command before it is executed. Command Action1. set –v sets the debugging
mode on2. sh –v sample.sh echoes each command of
script sample.sh before it is executed
3. set +v turns off –v option of sh We can also use –x option. What is difference?
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Shell Programming
Conditional Statement – if then else Syntax:
if test <condition> then
command1command2
elsecommand3
fi The if statement takes two-way decisions
depending on the condition .
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Shell Programming
String Tests used by the command test String Comparison True if
string1 = string2 strings equal string1 != string2 strings not equal-n string string not null-z string string is null
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Shell Programming
Arithmetic expression comparisons used by the command testArithmetic comparison True ifexpr1 -eq expr2 expressions equalexpr1 -ne expr2 expressions not equalexpr1 -gt expr2 expr1 > expr2expr1 -ge expr2 expr1 >= expr2expr1 -lt expr2 expr1 < expr2expr1 -le expr2 expr1 <=expr2! expression expression is false
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Shell Programming
String Tests used by the command testTest True if-d file file exists and is a directory-e file file exists-f file file exists and is a regular file-r file file exists and is a readable-s file file exists and has a size > 0-w file file exists and is a writable-x file file exists and is a executable
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Shell Programming
Conditional Statement - case Syntax:
case $value inval1) command1 command2;;val2) command3;;….*) command4;;
esac The statement matches an expression for more than
one alternative, and permits multi-way branching.
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Shell Programming
Example of case statement:echo “Enter the color”read colorcase $color in
Red | red) echo “You have selected red color”;;Blue | blue) echo “You have selected blue color”;;*) echo “Sorry! Yet to add this color in our list”
esac
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Shell Programming
Loop Statement - while Syntax:
while test <condition>do
command1command2
done While statement repeatedly performs a set of
instructions till the control command returns a true exit status.
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Shell Programming
Loop Statement – until Syntax:
until test <condition>do
command1command2
done The set of instructions is executed repeatedly as
long as the condition remains false. The until statement complements the while
statement.
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Shell Programming
Unconditional loop – for Syntax
for <var> in <val1 val2 …>do
command1command2
done The loop body (do-done) is executed as many
times as there are items in the list. It doesn’t test condition but uses a list.
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Shell Programming
Example of for statement Assume file “Users.txt” contains names of
users.for name in `cat Users.txt`do
echo Hello, $namedone
This statement when executed, will print the message “Hello, user-name” for each user name from the file.
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Shell Programming
Command Line parameters (positional parameters)
When arguments are specified with a shell script, they are assigned to variables called positional parameters.
The first argument is read by the shell into the parameter $1, the second into the parameter $2, and so on.
The $# represents total no of arguments passed to the script.
The command is assigned to a variable $0. You can use these variables up to $9.
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The $* indicates all arguments, in a single variable, separated by the first character in the environment variable IFS
The $@ is same as $* except when enclosed in double quotes.
The “$@” works with string input. The parameter $? stores the exit status of the
last command. On success, the command stores value 0 in $?, and a non-zero value if it fails.
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set : Assigning values to positional parameters.
$ set 23 532 The command assigns value 23 to the
positional parameter $1, value 532 to $2. It also sets $#, $*.
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shift : shifting arguments to left. The command shift copies the contents of a
positional parameter to its immediate lower numbered positional parameter. When called once, contents of $2 are copied to $1, $3 to $2 and so on. $ shift 2
The command does two shifts i.e. $1=$3, $2=$4, and so on.
Using shift command we can use more than 9 command line parameters.
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Finding the length of the string: The regular expression .* signifies to command
expr that it has to print the number of characters matching the pattern, i.e., the length of the entire string.
We can also use keyword length with command expr
$ expr “abcd” : “.*” $ 4 $ expr length “abcd” $ 4
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Command grouping using parenthesis () Commands are grouped using parenthesis () Using parenthesis, we can collectively redirect
the standard output of two commands with a single redirection symbol.
For example: $ (date; cat employee.txt) > Report.txt
This will redirect the collective output which is current date and employee.txt file contents to Report.txt file.
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Command grouping using curly braces {} The curly braces {} are also used to group
commands. The difference between () and {} is that parenthesis
() executes the commands group in a sub-shell, while the curly braces {} uses the current shell only.
The closing curly brace must be on a separate line by itself, or simply terminate the last command with a semi-colon.
For example, observe output of the following: $ pwd ; ( cd /home/ravindra/test ; pwd) ; pwd $ pwd ; { cd /home/ravindra/test ; pwd; } ; pwd
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Shell Functions: A function consists of a group of statements which
are executed together as a bunch. For function we need function definition (body of
function) and function call. A shell function must precede the statements that
call it. The return statement, when present, returns a
value representing the success or failure of the function.
The return statement is optional.
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The syntax for function definition: function_test() {
Command1 Command2 Command3 return value
} When function is invoked it executes all the
commands enclosed by the curly braces. Use only function name (function_test ) to
invoke it.
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Shell functions can be defined at a number of places: At the beginning of every script In a separate file, so that other scripts can also
use them In the .bash_profile, so that they are available
in the current session If we store the functions in a file called
function_library then you must include this file in your script using dot command as follows:
$ . function_library
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The positional parameters made available to shell scripts externally are not available directly to a shell function.
We have to store these parameters in the shell variables and then pass them to the function.
The parameters are passed on the function call statement itself.
These parameters are accessed in the function using system variables $1, $2, etc.
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