BIL 10 1 E Introduction to Computers and Information Systems

1. BIL 101EIntroduction to Computers and Information Systems Spring 2006

2. Unix History The unfinished development of OS Multics at Bell Laboratories in 1965 left them without a good OS. Ken Thopson and Dennis Ritchie decided to sketch out an OS for BL. Ken Thompson implemented it on PDP-7. As a pun on Multix he named the new operating system Unix. A new programming language C was developed for implementation of Unix and 95% of this operating system was written in C - therefore Unix is a very good portable system. BIL 101E - WEEK4

3. Linux History Linux was written by Linus Torvalds and has been improoved by countless number of people around the word. It was initially developed for small PC. BIL 101E - WEEK4

4. Linux Features multitasking:several programs running at once multiusers:several users at the same machine at once multiplatforms:it runs on many different CPU BIL 101E - WEEK4

5. GettingStarted • You can login to an UNIX operating system after you had been assigned a username by a system administrator. $login: • Unix/Linux is case sensitive (as the C language). Username smith is different from Smith • After entering your username you will be faced with the following: $password: BIL 101E - WEEK4

6. GettingStarted • If you have typed your password correctly a prompt will appear. For example: $ • or a little detailed prompt marian:~$ BIL 101E - WEEK4

7. UNIX DIRECTORY STRUCTURE In Unix, the files are organized into a tree structure witha root named by the character '/'. The first few levels of the tree look like this: BIL 101E - WEEK4

8. UNIX DIRECTORY STRUCTURE In many systems the user files aresubdirectories of a directory named `home' in root directory ‘/’.If we had a user tango, forexample, tango’s home directory would be /home/tango, and all his files would be within that subtree. Suppose tango's directory looks like this: BIL 101E - WEEK4

9. UNIX DIRECTORY STRUCTURE BIL 101E - WEEK4

10. FILE TYPES There are four types of files in the Unix file system. Ordinary Files An ordinary file may contain text, a program, or other data. It can be either an ASCII file, with each of its bytes being in the numerical range 0 to 127, i.e. in the 7-bit range, or a binary file, whose bytes can be of all possible values 0 to 255, in the 8-bit range. BIL 101E - WEEK4

11. FILE TYPES Directory Files Suppose that in the directory x I have a, b and c, and that b is a directory, containing files u and v. Then b can be viewed not only as a directory, containing further files, but also as a file itself. The file b consists of information about the directory b; i.e. the file b has information stating that the directory b has files u and v, how large they are, when they were last modified, etc. BIL 101E - WEEK4

12. FILE TYPES Device Files In Unix, physical devices (printers, terminals etc.) are represented as “files.” This seems odd at first, but it really makes sense: This way, the same read() and write() functions used to read and write real files can also be used to read from and write to these devices. BIL 101E - WEEK4

13. FILE TYPES Link Files Suppose we have a file X, and type ln X Y If we thenrunls, it willappear that a new file, Y, has beencreated, as a copy of X, as if we had typed cp X Y However, the difference is the cp does create a new file, while ln merely gives an alternate name to an old file. If we make Y using ln, then Y is merely a new name for the same physical file X. BIL 101E - WEEK4

14. Listing Files The `a' (``all'') and `l' (``long'') options of the ls command will give us a lot of information about files in a specified directory. ls –al drwx--x--x 63 tango users 4096 Sep 1701:33 .drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Sep 3 16:53 ..drwxr-xr-x 30 tango users 4096 Sep 15 11:44 downloadsdrwxr-xr-x 4tango users 4096 Jul 25 23:19 evrimdrwxr-xr-x 5 tango users 4096 Sep 17 00:53 foy 1st column - access permissions (see below) 2nd column - number of file entries (in the case of directory files) 3rd column - owner 4rd column – group 5th column - size in bytes 6th column - date and time of last modification 7th column - name BIL 101E - WEEK4

15. File Permissions In Unix, all files are protected under some access control mechanism, so that the owner of a file can deny access of his files to other users. The first column of the long directory list shows the access characteristics of a file, in te form of 10 flags, e.g. drwxr-xr-x. • Position 1 file type: d (directory) - (ordinary file) l (symbolic link) • Position 2-4 permissions for the owner: r (read), w (write) , x (execute) • Position 5-7 permissions for other users in the same group • Position 8-10 permissions for all other users BIL 101E - WEEK4

16. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS • The command line is a place where the commands of a operating system are called and the results of the commands are seen. • The commands are the tools that the operations needed by the user to operate the system. • The basic commands about basic operations, disk operations, administrative or user based operations, network operations are given here. • Please note that this is not a complete set of commands, but most commonly used ones are documented here. BIL 101E - WEEK4

17. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS BIL 101E - Week4

18. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS ls :Lists contents of directories. Directory contents are sorted alphabetically. –l In addition to the name of each file, prints the file type,permissions, number of hard links, owner name, group name,size in bytes, and timestamp(the modification time). –a Lists all files in directories, including all files that start with ‘.’. --color Controls whether color is used to distinguish file types. ls –l ls –a ls –al ls –color BIL 101E - WEEK4

19. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS man :Formats and displays the online manual pages. To exit the manual pages ‘q’ character should be used. man ls cd : Change directory command allows you to change the present working directory to another one. cd /home/user1/examples cd .. cd ../../ cd ../../ex/project BIL 101E - WEEK4

20. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS mkdir:Creates a new directory with each given name. mkdir bil101 rm: Removes files or directories. By default, it does not remove directories. -fIgnores nonexistent files, never prompt -iPrompts before any removal -r, -R Removes the contents of directories recursively. BIL 101E - WEEK4

21. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS rm ex1 rm *.c rm *.* rm –f *.c rm –i example1 rm –r /home/user2/abc/ • rmdir : Removes empty directories. • rmdir cse100 BIL 101E - WEEK4

22. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS cp :Copies files and directories. If the last argument names an existing directory, cp copies each other given file into a file with the same name in that directory. Otherwise, if only two files are given, it copies the first onto the second. It is an error if more than two files are given. By default, it does not copy directories. –i Prompts whether to overwrite existing regular destination files. –R Copies directories recursively. cp ex1.c ex2.c cp ex1.c exs/ cp ex1.c exs/ex2.c cp –i ex1.c ../exs/ cp –R exs/* ../examples/ BIL 101E - WEEK4

23. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS mv :Moves (renames) files. If the last argument names an existing directory, mv moves each other given file into a file with the same name in that directory. Otherwise, if only two files are given, it moves the first onto the second. It also renames directories. mv ex1.c ex2.c mv ex1.c ../exs/ex2.c BIL 101E - WEEK4

24. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS mdir: Displays an MSDOS directory. If your floppy disk is DOS-formatted, then you can see the content of your floppy disk by typing mdir a: mcopy: Copies MSDOS files to/from Unix. If your floppy disk is DOS-formatted, then you can copy your files from the floopy disk to the harddisk or from the harddisk to the floppy disk without mounting it. mcopy ex1.c a:. mcopy a:ex2.c . mcopy ex1.c a:ex2.c mcopy a:ex2.c ex3.c BIL 101E - WEEK4

25. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS mmd : Makes an MSDOS subdirectory. If your floppy disk is DOS-formatted, then you can create directory in your floppy disk. mmd dir1 mrd : Removes an MSDOS subdirectory. If your floppy disk is DOS-formatted, then you can remove a directory in your floppy disk. mrd dir1 mcd : Changes MSDOS directory. If your floppy disk is DOS-formatted, then you can change directory in the floopy disk. mcd dir2 BIL 101E - WEEK4

26. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS mdel: Deletes an MSDOS file. If your floppy disk is DOS-formatted, then you can delete a file in your floppy disk. mdel ex2.c fdformat:fdformat does a low level format on a floppy disk. Device is usually one of the following: fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 mformat:Adds an MSDOS filesystem to a low-level formatted floppy disk. mformat a: BIL 101E - WEEK4

27. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS pwd:Prints name of the current working directory. pwd find:Searches for files in a directory hierarchy. find searches the directory tree rooted at each given pathname by evaluating the given expression from left to right, according to the rules of precedence, until the outcome is known, at which point find moves on to the next pathname. –name pattern Base of the path matches shell pattern find / -name *.c find ./ -name *.c find /home/user2/ -name *.c BIL 101E - WEEK4

28. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS cat :Concatenates files and prints on the standard output. cat ex3. cat ex2.c ex5.c cat ex4.c ex3.c > ex5. more :more is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time. ls | more less : Less is a program similar to more, but which allows backward movement in the file as well as forward movement. ls | less BIL 101E - WEEK4

29. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS chmod : Changes the permissions of each given file according to mode, which can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make, or an octal number representing the bit pattern for the new permissions. In the symbolic mode a combination of the letters ‘ugoa’ controls which users' access to the file will be changed: the user who owns it (u), other users in the file's group (g), other users not in the file's group (o), or all users (a). The operator ‘+’ causes the permissions selected to be added to the existing permissions of each file; ‘-‘ causes them to be removed. The letters ‘rwx’ select the new permissions for the affected users: read (r), write (w), execute(or access for directories) (x). chmod u+w ex3.c chmod a-x ex5.c BIL 101E - WEEK4

30. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS A numeric mode is from one to four octal digits(0-7),derived by adding up the bits with values 4, 2, and 1. Any omitted digits are assumed to be leading zeros. The first digit selects the set user ID (4) and set group ID (2) and save text image (1) attributes. The second digit selects permissions for the user who owns the file: read (4), write (2), and execute (1); the third selects permissions for other users in the file's group, with the same values; and the fourth for other users not in the files’s group, with the same values. -R change files and directories recursively chmod 755 ex2.c BIL 101E - WEEK4

31. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS BIL 101E - Week4

32. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS chown: Changes file owner and group. -R operate on files and directories recursively chown user3 ex3.c chown –R user4 examples/* chown user3.user3 ex4.c chgrp: Changes group ownership. -R operate on files and directories recursively chgrp user5 ex6.c chgrp –R user6 examples/*a BIL 101E - WEEK4

33. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS du: Estimates file space usage du exs/ gzip: Compresses files. -c Write output on standard output;keep original files unchanged. gzip –c final/ > fin.gz gunzip: Expands files. gunzip can decompress files created by gzip. -c Write output on standard output; keep original files unchanged. gunzip –c fin.gz BIL 101E - WEEK4

34. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS tar: It is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file. -c create a new archive -f use archive file -z filter the archive through gzip -v verbosely list files processed -x extract files from an archive tar cvfz str.tgz /home/user1/ tar xvfz str.tgz paswd: Updates a user's authentication tokens passwd passwd user5 whoami : Prints the user name associated with the current effective user id. whoami BIL 101E - WEEK4

35. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS ps: Reports process status. Ps gives a snapshot of the current processes. It returns the process id knowledge. -A select all processes -a select all with a tty except session leaders T select all processes on this terminal a select all processes on a terminal, including those of other users x select processes without controlling ttys u display user-oriented format ps aux ps x ps u ps a kill: Terminates a process kill sends the specified signal to the specified process. The process id can be read by the help of the ps command. kill –9 125 BIL 101E - WEEK4

36. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS ssh: (SSH client) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands on a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. ssh burcu@maslak.be.itu.edu.tr scp: secure copy (remote file copy program) scp file burcu@maslak.be.itu.edu.tr:~/directory1 BIL 101E - WEEK4

37. BASIC UNIX COMMANDS startx: The startx script is a front end to xinit that provides a somewhat nicer user interface for running a single session of the X Window System. It is typically run with no arguments. Startx logout: Exits from the current user. Logout reboot: Stops the system. Reboot poweroff: Stops the system. Poweroff BIL 101E - WEEK4

38. Text Editing in UNIX Environments In many UNIX environments like GNU/Linux, the system provides more than one text editor. We will discuss vi, joe and pico here. VI:Vi stands for visual, because it was an early text editor that actually showed you the text you were creating and what the resulting changes looked like. Vi is generally available on every UNIX system you might come across for the rest of your life. :wwrites the file to disk (if "file" is already defined) :qquit vi :wqsave some typing: same as :w and then :q BIL 101E - Week4

39. Text Editing in UNIX Environments JOE JOE is a powerful text editor with many capabilities. Above is a screen shot of the help screen of JOE. BIL 101E - Week4

40. Text Editing in UNIX Environments Pico This editor has all the basic functions for beginners and a quick solution to editing text files for everyone. BIL 101E - Week4