Question

Demonstrate your grasp of the Unix file system by constructing a directory structure as follows: In your home ( ~ ) directory, create a directory named "UnixCourse".This directory will be used in the remaining assignments of this course, as well as this one.Several of the commands that you will issue in this course will examine files in this directory and, in some cases, send me a listing of those files or even copies of those files for grading and diagnostic purposes. So you should not store anything unrelated to the course assignments in this ~/UnixCourse area. Within your UnixCourse directory, create a directory named "fileAsst". Within that fileAsst directory, create two directories, named "TweedleDee" and "TweedleDum".

Use the ls and/or tree command to check your work. Within the TweedleDee directory, you should place a copy of the file ~cs252/Assignments/fileAsst/hatter.txt

Use the ls and/or tree command to check your work. Within the TweedleDum directory, you should place a copy of the file ~cs252/Assignments/fileAsst/dormouse.txt Use the ls and/or tree command to check your work.

When you have completed this much, execute the command ~cs252/bin/fileAsst-1 (Take note of the difference between the numeric digit 1 and the lower-case letter l in the command above.

If you can’t tell the difference between these, check your web browser settings to see if you can get it to use some better fonts.) This will check to see if you have built the desired directory structure so far. You should repeat the above steps as necessary until this command reports success.

If you have been successful so far, the fileAsst-1 command will have placed a new file somewhere in the directory structure you have built.

Find it, and move it into the TweedleDee directory, renaming the file to "rabbit.dat". Execute the command ~cs252/bin/fileAsst-2

Answer 1

The steps to follow in executing the command are listed in the Explanation section

Step-by-step explanation:

Open the terminal using Ctrl + Alt + T

To go to home directory, type: cd ~ OR just cd

To create a directory named UnixCourse, type: mkdir UnixCourse

To change directory to UnixCourse, type: cd UnixCourse

To create a fileAsst directory, type: mkdir fileAsst

To change directory into fileAsst, type: cd fileAsst

To create TweedleDee directory, type: mkdir TweedleDee

To create TweedleDum direectory, type: mkdir TweedleDum

To view the directory, type: ls

To copy from one directory to another:

cp ~/cs252/Assignments/fileAsst/hatter.txt ~/UnixCourse/fileAsst/TweedleDee

To change to TweedleDee directory and list to view:

cd TweedleDee

ls

cd .. (this is to go back to the fileAsst directory)

To copy from one directory to another:

cp ~/cs252/Assignments/fileAsst/dormouse.txt ~/UnixCourse/fileAsst/TweedleDum

To change to TweedleDum directory and list to view:

cd TweedleDum

ls

cd .. (this is to go back to the fileAsst directory)

The command below is executed as required:

~/cs252/bin/fileAsst-1

We check the directory for new file:

ls (to display entire file/folder)

then move the new file to TweedleDee directory

mv ~/UnixCourse/fileAsst/'name of file' ~/UnixCourse/fileAsst/TweedleDee

we then rename the file to rabbit.dat

mv ~/UnixCourse/fileAsst/TweedleDee/'name of file' ~/UnixCourse/fileAsst/TweedleDee/rabbit.dat

cd .. (this is to go back to the fileAsst directory)

The command below is executed as required:

~/cs252/bin/fileAsst-2