Due: Thursday, March 28, 2022, at 11 pm (you really really don't want to burn up late days on this one!).
The purpose of this assignment is to be sure that you have your
Linux environment set up for the quarter and that you can log in and
execute shell commands. For this assignment you must use
either your
account on the cancun.cs.washington.edu
machine or your
own copy of the CSE Linux Virtual Machine. It is possible to use
another reasonably recent Linux system for many things, but we will
use the CSE systems to evaluate submitted work, and you need to
verify that everything you submit works correctly there. See
the Linux Resources page on the
course web site resources tab for more information about how to get started.
bash
. Otherwise you will run into
strange, baffling problems with shell scripts. Enter the
command echo $SHELL
. The response should
be /bin/bash
. If the shell name is different
(csh
, tcsh
, or something else), use the
appropriate commands on your system to change your login shell
to bash
. On many Linux and Unix systems this can be
done with the command chsh
or ypchsh
.touch ~/.gcc9That creates an empty file named
.gcc9
in your home directory,
which Rocky Linux uses to select the proper version of gcc when you open
a terminal window.
Close the terminal window and then open a new one. Type the
command gcc --versionThe message that is printed should show version 9 of gcc. If you still see version 8, you should log out and back in, which should reinitialize things properly.
script
command
will capture the terminal session and save it in a file
named hw0.script
in the current directory
which should be your home directory if these commands are executed properly.cd script hw0.script whoami echo $SHELL pwd uname -a cat /etc/rocky-release gcc --version -std=c17 exitNotes: if the
gcc
command
generates a warning that -std=c17 is not a recognized option, your
C compiler and, probably, your Linux version are too old, and you
should use the current UW CSE Linux system for this class.cat /etc/rocky-release
command should print a message that
begins with Rocky Linux release 8.5
... .
If it does not, or if you get a message that the file is not found, you are not
using a properly configured UW CSE Linux machine, and you should repeat
the assignment once you fix that.
Assessment: Your solution will be evaluated on how well it
follows the instructions and produces the desired results. Note:
the script
command captures everything,
including backspaces and other corrections as you are typing input.
It's fine if there is some of this in the submitted file, but if
there is too much clutter or too many mistakes, it would be best to
start over and get a reasonably clean hw0.script
file
to turn in.
Turn-in Instructions: Use gradescope, linked on the
course resources web page, to turn in the hw0.script
file created in
problem 2. Gradescope will allow you to turn in your homework up to
two days late, if you choose to use one or two of your late days, but
you are strongly advised to save your late days
for much later in the quarter when you may really want them.
If you create the hw0.script
file on cancun
,
you can use scp
(winscp
on windows)
to transfer the file to your local
machine so it can be submitted using your local web browser.
If you are using the UW CSE Linux virtual machine,
use the "file cabinet" (files) program to open a window
showing your home directory. The hw0.script
file should be
located there, and you can use a web browser on the VM, probably Firefox,
to upload the file to gradescope.