OPERATING SYSTEMS LAB 03

TOPIC: Linux Commands and Practice Problems

SUBMITTED BY: Muhammad Hassan Imtiaz

SUBMITTED TO: Mr. Kashif Nazir

DEPARTMENT: Computer Science

CLASS: BSCS-5th
ROLL NO: FC-071

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN

LANGUAGES
 Problem 1:
Enter the following commands on LINUX prompt, and try to interpret the
output. Give description of each command in at least one line.

01:
Displays the text "hello world" to the terminal.

02:
Allows a user to change their password.

03:
Prints the current date and time.

04:
Shows the system's hostname.
 05:
Displays the CPU architecture of the system.

06:
Shows detailed system information, including the kernel version

07:
Provides information about how long the system has been running.

08:
Shows the current user's login information.

09:
Lists all users currently logged in.
 10:
Displays user and group information.

11:
Shows a list of recent logins

12:
Displays a list of logged-in users and their activities.
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Opens a real-time system monitoring tool; press 'q' to quit.

14:
Prints the path to the user's default shell.

15:
Opens the manual page for the "ls" command; press 'q' to quit.
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Opens the manual page for the "who" command; press 'q' to quit.
 17:
Clears the terminal screen.
 18:
Displays the calendar for the year 2000.
 19:
Shows the calendar for September 1759.
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Calculates and displays the result of 5 + 4 using the "bc" calculator.

21:
Repeatedly prints "please" until interrupted with Ctrl-C.

22:
Measures and displays the time taken for the "sleep 5" command to execute.
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Shows a list of previously executed commands.

24:
Installs the NASM assembler using the APT package manager with superuser
privileges.
 PROBLEM 02:
 cd - Change to the user's home directory.

 pwd - Display the current directory (home directory).

 ls -al - List all files and directories in detail in the current directory (home
directory).
 cd . - Change to the current directory (no change).

 pwd - Display the current directory (home directory, no change).

 cd .. - Change to the parent directory.

 pwd - Display the current directory (parent directory).

 ls -al - List all files and directories in detail in the parent directory.

 cd .. - Change to the parent directory's parent directory (grandparent

directory).

 pwd - Display the current directory (grandparent directory).

 cd /etc - Change to the '/etc' directory.

 ls -al | more - List all files and directories in '/etc' and use 'more' to paginate
the output.
cat passwd - Display the contents of the 'passwd' file.
 cd - - Change back to the previous directory ('/etc' to the current directory
before the 'cd' command).

 pwd - Display the current directory (previous directory).