Informatics I494: Designing and Developing an Information System

Objectives: 

The objective of this assignment is for the student to demonstrate a reasonable level of comfort with UNIX systems and thereby complete the I494 UNIX technology seminar requirements.

Assignment 

Write out the UNIX commands for the following actions:

1. From any directory on a UNIX machine, how do you get back to your home directory?
2. What is the command that lets you see what directory you are currently in?
3. How do you move the file index.html to the myweb subdirectory of your current directory?
4. How do you delete the directory imagers and create a new directory named images?
5. How do I get information from the UNIX system on the command finger?
6. How do I print the contents of the file index.html to the screen?
7. How do I save a listing of the current directory to the file output.txt?
8. How do I change the permissions of the file index.html so that the user has read,write, and execute priveleges, and the group and world have read priveleges?
9. What is the IU-specific command that changes all of your files in all subdirectories of your www directories to be world-readable?
10. If i am in the I450 subdirectory of the www directory, how do I move to the images subdirectory of www?

Turn in your answers in a text document in your "Technology Seminar" dropbox on Oncourse. Name the text file UNIX.doc.

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