LAB 02

Part 1
Time: 90 min
Task 01:
Find which version of kernel your system is using. (LF-L2-1)

Task 02:
Use man and related resources to find out how to change the hostname of your computer. (LF-L2-2)

Task 03:
a) Locate man page that shows how to set a password. (R-L2-1)
b) Display the man page of mount system call. (LB-C3-10)

Task 04:
Use the cat command to list the contents of the /etc/services file. (LB-C3-6)

Task 05:
Using variables, find out what your hostname, username, shell, and home directories are currently set
to. (LB-C3-8)

Task 06:
Create an alias called mypass that displays the contents of the /etc/passwd file on your screen. (LB-C3-
9)

Task 07:
a) Use grep to show the names of all files in /etc that have lines starting with text ‘root’. (LF-L4-4)
b) Use grep to show all lines from all files in /etc that have contains exactly 3 characters. (LF-L4-5)
(R-L4-5)
c) Use grep to find all files that contain string “alex”, but make sure that “alexander” is not in the
result. (LF-L4-6) (R-L4-6)

Task 08:
Find files under the /usr/share/doc directory that have not been modified in more than 30 days. (LB-C5-
6)

Task 9:
Create a /tmp/FILES directory. Find all files under the /usr/share directory that are more than 5MB and
less than 10MB and copy them to the /tmp/FILES directory. (LB-C5-7)

Task 10:
There are two terminals and I want to write from one to terminal to another terminal. Can you find out
a command that helps me writing something to another terminal? (Hint: take help from man and man
-k)

Task 11:
a) Write a single shell command to list all the files in your pwd including hidden files, but not
implied ‘.’ and ‘..’?
b) Write a single shell command that display all the files within a pwd, sorted alphabetically by file
name and show associated last status change time information of each file/directory.

Task 12:
a) Write a single command to display the first 12 lines of /etc/services.
b) Write a single command to display only the last line of /etc/passwd.
Task 13:
Write a single command to count the number of lines in /etc/passwd.