Chapter 5 answers

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• Decide whether the following sentence is true or false:

1. False
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. True
6. True
7. True

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• Write a menu driven script using the select statement to print calories for food items such as pizza, burger, Salad, Pasta etc.

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• Write a shell script that, given a file name as the argument will count vowels, blank spaces, characters, number of line and symbols.

#!/bin/bash
file=$1
v=0
 
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
	echo "$0 fileName"
	exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f $file ]
then
	echo "$file not a file"
	exit 2
fi
 
while read -n 1 c
do
  l=$(echo $c | tr [:upper:] [:lower:])
  [[ "$l" == "a" || "$l" == "e" || "$l" == "i" || "$l" == "o" || "$l" == "u" ]] && (( v++ ))
done < $file
 
echo "Vowels : $v"
echo "Characters : $(cat $file | wc -c)"
echo "Blank lines : $(grep  -c '^$' $file)"
echo "Lines : $(cat $file|wc -l )"

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• Write a shell script that, given a file name as the argument will count English language articles such As 'A', 'An' and 'The'.

#!/bin/bash
file=$1
a=0
 
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
	echo "$0 fileName"
	exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f $file ]
then
	echo "$file not a file"
	exit 2
fi
 
while read line
do
  l=$(echo $line | tr [:upper:] [:lower:])

for word in $l
do
	[[ $word == "a" || $word == "an" || $word == "the" ]] && ((a++))
done

done < $file
 
echo "articles : $a"

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• Write a shell script that, given a file name as the argument will write the even numbered line to a file with name evenfile and odd numbered lines in a text file called oddfile.

#!/bin/bash
file=$1
counter=0
 
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
	echo "$0 fileName"
	exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f $file ]
then
	echo "$file not a file"
	exit 2
fi
 
while read line
do
	((counter++))
	EvenNo=$(( counter%2 ))

	if [ $EvenNo -eq 0 ] 
	then
		echo $line >> evenfile 
	else
		echo $line >> oddfile
	fi

done < $file

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• Write a shell script to monitor Linux server disk space using a while loop. Send an email alert when percentage of used disk space is >= 90%.

#!/bin/bash
ADMIN="me@somewher.com"
# set alert level 90% is default
ALERT=90
df -H | grep -vE '^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom' | awk '{ print $5 " " $1 }' | while read output;
do
  #echo $output
  usep=$(echo $output | awk '{ print $1}' | cut -d'%' -f1  )
  partition=$(echo $output | awk '{ print $2 }' )
  if [ $usep -ge $ALERT ]; then
    echo "Running out of space \"$partition ($usep%)\" on $(hostname) as on $(date)" |
     mail -s "Alert: Almost out of disk space $usep" $ADMIN
  fi
done

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• Write a shell script to determine if an input number is a palindrome or not. A palindromic number is a number where the digits, with decimal representation usually assumed, are the same read backwards, for example, 58285.

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter number : "
read n
 
# store single digit
sd=0
 
# store number in reverse order
rev=""
 
# store original number
on=$n
 
while [ $n -gt 0 ]
do
    sd=$(( $n % 10 )) # get Remainder
    n=$(( $n / 10 ))  # get next digit
    # store previous number and current digit in reverse
    rev=$( echo ${rev}${sd} )
done
 
if [ $on -eq $rev ];
then
  echo "Number is palindrome"
else
  echo "Number is NOT palindrome"
fi

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• Write a shell program to read a number *such as 123) and find the sum of digits (1+2+3=6).

#!/bin/bash

#store the no
num=$1

#store the value of sum
sum=0
 
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
	echo "$0 number"
	exit 1
fi

while [ $num -gt 0 ] 
do
	digit=$(( num%10 ))
	num=$(( num/10 ))
	sum=$(( digit+sum ))
done 

echo "Sum of digits = $sum"

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• Write a shell program to read a number and display reverse the number. For example, 123 should be printed as as 321.

#!/bin/bash

#store the no
num=$1

#store the reverse number
rev=0
 
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
	echo "$0 number"
	exit 1
fi

while [ $num -gt 0 ] 
do
	digit=$(( num%10 ))
	num=$(( num/10 ))
	rev=$(( digit + rev*10 ))
done 

echo "Reverse of number = $rev"

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• Write the shell program which produces a report from the output of ls -l in the following format using the for loop statement:

file1
file2
[DIR] test/
Total regular files : 7
Total directories : 4
Total symbolic links : 0
Total size of regular files : 2940

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• Write a shell script that will count the number of files in each of your sub-directories using the for loop.

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• Write a shell script that accepts two directory names as arguments and deletes those files in the first directory which are similarly named in the second directory.

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• Write a shell script to search for no password entries in /etc/passwd and lock all accounts.

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• Write a shell program to read two numbers and display all the odd numbers between those two numbers.

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