Assignment title: Programming
Information Technology
Q
When answering these questions you will have to run commands under
Linux—whenever a command is run you will need to:
a. explain in your own words the purpose of the command in the
context of the assignment question. (Please do not just copy the
"Description" section from the man page!) Also, you need to explain
in your own words all terminology used—as if you were explaining
to an average user! (Please show you understand what
you are doing!)
b. show that the command worked—either from its output or the
output from another command. For example
prompt> dd if=/dev/zero of=Crypt.fs bs=1M count=32
32+0 records in
32+0 records out
33554432 bytes (34 MB) copied, 0.109063 s, 308 MB/s
1 PDF/prompt> ls -l Crypt.fs
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 33554432 2010-02-25 10:18 Crypt.fs
c. To capture text output from programs you will have to redirect
the output to a file or use the command script. If you are using
the command script turn off the tty escape sequences that
change the colour of console text—the escape sequences will appear
in output file and make it impossible to read.