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THIRD ASSIGNMENT
1. Write a script to accept any number/by using command line argument and make menu
driven program for the following operations 1) Find Number is odd or Even 2) Find the
factorial of Number 3) Reverse the number 4) Check the number is palindrome or not 5)
Find the Number is Armstrong or not 6) Find the number is prime or not 7) Find the
number is positive, negative or zero 8) Sum of first and last digit 9) Display square and
cube 10) Exit

Ans =>
while true; do

echo "1) Find Number is odd or Even"

echo "2) Find the factorial of Number"

echo "3) Reverse the number"

echo "4) Check the number is palindrome or not"

echo "5) Find the Number is Armstrong or not"

echo "6) Find the number is prime or not"

echo "7) Find the number is positive, negative or zero"

echo "8) Sum of first and last digit"

echo "9) Display square and cube"

echo "10) Exit"

read -p "Enter your choice: " choice

case $choice in

1)

read -p "Enter the number: " number

if (( number % 2 == 0 )); then

echo "The number is even"

else

echo "The number is odd"

fi

;;

2)

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read -p "Enter the number: " number

factorial=1

for (( i=1; i<=number; i++ )); do

factorial=$(( factorial * i ))

done

echo "The factorial of $number is $factorial"

;;

3)

read -p "Enter the number: " number

reverse=""

while (( number > 0 )); do

digit=$(( number % 10 ))

reverse="$reverse$digit"

number=$(( number / 10 ))

done

echo "The reverse of $1 is $reverse"

;;

4)

read -p "Enter the number: " number

original=$number

reverse=""

while (( number > 0 )); do

digit=$(( number % 10 ))

reverse="$reverse$digit"

number=$(( number / 10 ))

done

if (( original == reverse )); then

echo "The number is a palindrome"

else

echo "The number is not a palindrome"

fi

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;;

5)

read -p "Enter the number: " number

original=$number

sum=0

while (( number > 0 )); do

digit=$(( number % 10 ))

sum=$(( sum + digit * digit * digit ))

number=$(( number / 10 ))

done

if (( original == sum )); then

echo "The number is an Armstrong number"

else

echo "The number is not an Armstrong number"

fi

;;

6)

read -p "Enter the number: " number

is_prime=1

for (( i=2; i<=number/2; i++ )); do

if (( number % i == 0 )); then

is_prime=0

break

fi

done

if (( is_prime == 1 )); then

echo "The number is prime"

else

echo "The number is not prime"

fi

;;

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7)

read -p "Enter the number: " number

if (( number > 0 )); then

echo "The number is positive"

elif (( number < 0 )); then

echo "The number is negative"

else

echo "The number is zero"

fi

;;

8)

read -p "Enter the number: " number

last_digit=$(( number % 10 ))

first_digit=$number

while (( first_digit >= 10 )); do

first_digit=$(( first_digit / 10 ))

done

sum=$(( first_digit + last_digit ))

echo "The sum of the first and last digit is $sum"

;;

9)

read -p "Enter the number: " number

square=$(( number * number ))

cube=$(( number * number * number ))

echo "The square of $number is $square"

echo "The cube of $number is $cube"

;;

10)

break

;;

*)

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echo "Invalid choice"

;;

esac

done

2 .Write a script to make following file and directory management operations menu
based: 1. Display current directory 2. List directory 3. Make directory 4. Change directory
5. Copy a file 6. Rename a file 7. Delete a file 8. Edit a file [Link] file [Link]

Ans =>
while true; do

echo "1) Display current directory"

echo "2) List directory"

echo "3) Make directory"

echo "4) Change directory"

echo "5) Copy a file"

echo "6) Rename a file"

echo "7) Delete a file"

echo "8) Edit a file"

echo "9) Move a file"

echo "10) Exit"

read -p "Enter your choice: " choice

case $choice in

1)

pwd

;;

2)

ls

;;

3)

read -p "Enter the directory name: " directory

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mkdir $directory

echo "Directory created successfully"

;;

4)

read -p "Enter the directory name: " directory

cd $directory

echo "Directory changed successfully"

;;

5)

read -p "Enter the source file name: " source

read -p "Enter the destination file name: " destination

cp $source $destination

echo "File copied successfully"

;;

6)

read -p "Enter the current file name: " current

read -p "Enter the new file name: " new

mv $current $new

echo "File renamed successfully"

;;

7)

read -p "Enter the file name: " file

rm $file

echo "File deleted successfully"

;;

8)

read -p "Enter the file name: " file

vi $file

;;

9)

read -p "Enter the source file name: " source

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read -p "Enter the destination directory: " destination

mv $source $destination

echo "File moved successfully"

;;

10)

break

;;

*)

echo "Invalid choice"

;;

esac

done

[Link] largest and smallest of three numbers.

Ans =>
read -p "Enter the first number: " num1

read -p "Enter the second number: " num2

read -p "Enter the third number: " num3

largest=$num1

smallest=$num1

if (( num2 > largest )); then

largest=$num2

fi

if (( num3 > largest )); then

largest=$num3

fi

if (( num2 < smallest )); then

smallest=$num2
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fi

if (( num3 < smallest )); then

smallest=$num3

fi

echo "The largest number is $largest"

echo "The smallest number is $smallest"

4 .Code for Shell script which whenever gets executed displays the message “Good
Morning/Good afternoon /Good Evening “depending on the time it get executed"

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

hour=$(date +%H)

if (( hour >= 0 && hour < 12 )); then

echo "Good morning"

elif (( hour >= 12 && hour < 18 )); then

echo "Good afternoon"

else

echo "Good evening"

fi

5 .Write a shell script to validate the name of a person accepted through the keyboard so
that it does not exceed 10 characters of length.

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

read -p "Enter your name: " name

if (( ${#name} > 10 )); then

echo "Name should not exceed 10 characters"

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else

echo "Name is valid"

fi

6. Write a shell script to test the file is executable or not.

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

read -p "Enter a filename: " filename

if [[ -x $filename ]]; then

echo "$filename is executable"

else

echo "$filename is not executable"

fi

7. Create a student file with roll number, name, marks1, marks2, and marks3. Insert five
records and perform the following tasks:
1. Display students who fail in marks2 only
2. Display student who has the maximum percentage
3. Display students who have a percentage between 50 and 60
4. Display all students in ascending order

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

echo "Roll Number,Name,Marks1,Marks2,Marks3" > [Link]

echo "1,Alice,80,30,70" >> [Link]

echo "2,Bob,70,60,80" >> [Link]

echo "3,Charlie,50,40,60" >> [Link]

echo "4,David,90,80,70" >> [Link]

echo "5,Eve,60,30,40" >> [Link]

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# Display students who fail in marks2 only

awk -F, '$4 < 40 && $5 >= 40 && $6 >= 40 { print }' [Link]

# Display student who has the maximum percentage

awk -F, '{ total=$3+$4+$5; percent=total/3; if (percent > max) { max=percent; name=$2 } } END { print
name, max }' [Link]

# Display students who have a percentage between 50 and 60

awk -F, '{ total=$3+$4+$5; percent=total/3; if (percent >= 50 && percent <= 60) { print } }' [Link]

# Display all students in ascending order

sort -t, -k2 [Link]

8. Write a shell script to create a file having student(id, name, class, percent) and perform
the following tasks:
1. Insert student details
2. Update student detail
3. Search student detail based on ID

4. Delete student based on ID

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

echo "ID,Name,Class,Percent" > [Link]

while true; do

echo "1) Insert student details"

echo "2) Update student detail"

echo "3) Search student detail based on ID"

echo "4) Delete student based on ID"

echo "5) Exit"

read -p "Enter your choice: " choice

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case $choice in

1)

read -p "Enter the ID: " id

read -p "Enter the name: " name

read -p "Enter the class: " class

read -p "Enter the percent: " percent

echo "$id,$name,$class,$percent" >> [Link]

echo "Record added successfully"

;;

2)

read -p "Enter the ID to update: " id

grep -q "^$id," [Link]

if (( $? == 0 )); then

sed -i "/^$id,/d" [Link]

read -p "Enter the new name: " name

read -p "Enter the new class: " class

read -p "Enter the new percent: " percent

echo "$id,$name,$class,$percent" >> [Link]

echo "Record updated successfully"

else

echo "Record not found"

fi

;;

3)

read -p "Enter the ID to search: " id

grep "^$id," [Link]

if (( $? != 0 )); then

echo "Record not found"

fi

;;

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4)

read -p "Enter the ID to delete: " id

grep -q "^$id," [Link]

if (( $? == 0 )); then

sed -i "/^$id,/d" [Link]

echo "Record deleted successfully"

else

echo "Record not found"

fi

;;

5)

break

;;

*)

echo "Invalid choice"

;;

esac

done

9. Write a script that reads [Link](Rno,Name,M1,M2,M3,Class) file and displays the

mark sheet in the following format [display data sorted by semester]:
SRNO|Rollno|Name|Marks1|Marks2|Marks3|Total|Percent|Grade

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

echo "Rno,Name,M1,M2,M3,Class" > [Link]

echo "1,Alice,80,30,70,1" >> [Link]

echo "2,Bob,70,60,80,1" >> [Link]

echo "3,Charlie,50,40,60,2" >> [Link]

echo "4,David,90,80,70,2" >> [Link]

echo "5,Eve,60,30,40,3" >> [Link]

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awk -F, '{ total=$3+$4+$5; percent=total/3; grade=percent>=60?"A":percent>=50?"B":"C"; print $1

"|" $2 "|" $3 "|" $4 "|" $5 "|" total "|" percent "|" grade }' [Link] | sort -t\| -k6rn

10. Write a shell script to input string using command line. Display total numeric,
uppercase, lowercase and special characters:

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

read -p "Enter a string: " string

numeric=$(echo $string | grep -o [0-9] | wc -l)

uppercase=$(echo $string | grep -o [A-Z] | wc -l)

lowercase=$(echo $string | grep -o [a-z] | wc -l)

special=$(echo $string | grep -o [^a-zA-Z0-9] | wc -l)

echo "Total numeric characters: $numeric"

echo "Total uppercase characters: $uppercase"

echo "Total lowercase characters: $lowercase"

echo "Total special characters: $special"

11. Consider [Link] is as follows Rollno: student_name: course: joining_date [in the
form dd-mm-yyyy]. Use this file and write a menu-driven script as follows:

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

while true; do

echo "1) Add record"

echo "2) Display all records"

echo "3) Sort student information as per their joining date"

echo "4) Sort student information on their name"

echo "5) Display all fields of [Link] having field separator |(pipe) instead of colon"

echo "6) Display name of student and their joining date"

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echo "7) Display student information course wise"

echo "8) Modify record"

echo "9) Delete record"

echo "10) Exit"

read -p "Enter your choice: " choice

case $choice in

1)

read -p "Enter the roll number: " rollno

read -p "Enter the student name: " name

read -p "Enter the course: " course

read -p "Enter the joining date (dd-mm-yyyy): " date

echo "$rollno:$name:$course:$date" >> [Link]

echo "Record added successfully"

;;

2)

cat [Link]

;;

3)

sort -t: -k4 [Link]

;;

4)

sort -t: -k2 [Link]

;;

5)

cat [Link] | tr ':' '|'

;;

6)

cut -d: -f2,4 [Link]

;;

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7)

cut -d: -f3 [Link] | sort | uniq -c

;;

8)

read -p "Enter the roll number to modify: " rollno

grep -q "^$rollno:" [Link]

if (( $? == 0 )); then

sed -i "/^$rollno:/d" [Link]

read -p "Enter the new student name: " name

read -p "Enter the new course: " course

read -p "Enter the new joining date (dd-mm-yyyy): " date

echo "$rollno:$name:$course:$date" >> [Link]

echo "Record modified successfully"

else
echo "Record not found"

fi

;;

9)

read -p "Enter the roll number to delete: " rollno

grep -q "^$rollno:" [Link]

if (( $? == 0 )); then

sed -i "/^$rollno:/d" [Link]

echo "Record deleted successfully"

else

echo "Record not found"

fi

;;

10)

break

;;

*)

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echo "Invalid choice"

;;

esac

done

12. Create a student file(rno,name,marks1,marks2,marks3). Perform the following task:

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

while true; do

echo "1) Insert record"

echo "2) Display all records"

echo "3) Display students who fail in marks2 only"

echo "4) Display student who has maximum percentage"

echo "5) Display students who have percentage between 50 and 60"

echo "6) Display all pass students in ascending order"

echo "7) Exit"

read -p "Enter your choice: " choice

case $choice in

1)

read -p "Enter the roll number: " rollno

read -p "Enter the student name: " name

read -p "Enter the marks1: " marks1

read -p "Enter the marks2: " marks2

read -p "Enter the marks3: " marks3

echo "$rollno:$name:$marks1:$marks2:$marks3" >> [Link]

echo "Record added successfully"

;;
2)

cat [Link]
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;;

3)

awk -F: '$4 < 40 && $5 >= 40 && $6 >= 40 { print }' [Link]

;;

4)

awk -F: '{ total=$3+$4+$5; percent=total/3; if (percent > max) { max=percent; name=$2 } } END
{ print name, max }' [Link]

;;

5)

awk -F: '{ total=$3+$4+$5; percent=total/3; if (percent >= 50 && percent <= 60) { print } }'
[Link]

;;

6)

awk -F: '{ total=$3+$4+$5; percent=total/3; if (percent >= 40 && $4 >= 40 && $5 >= 40) { print
} }' [Link] | sort -t: -k3

;;

7)

break

;;

*)

echo "Invalid choice"

;;

esac

done

13. Write a shell script which accepts a username and checks whether the entered user is
currently logged in or not:

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

read -p "Enter a username: " username

who | grep -q "^$username "

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if (( $? == 0 )); then

echo "$username is currently logged in"

else

echo "$username is not currently logged in"

fi

14. Code for Write a shell script that finds the total number of users and finds out how
many of them are currently logged in Unix:

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

total=$(cat /etc/passwd | wc -l)

logged_in=$(who | wc -l)

echo "Total number of users: $total"

echo "Number of users currently logged in: $logged_in"

15. Write a shell script which takes input of a filename and prints the first ten lines of that
file. The filename is to be passed as a command-line argument. If the argument is not
passed, then any C program from the current directory is to be selected (don’t
use head command)

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

if (( $# == 0 )); then

file=$(ls *.c | head -n1)

else

file=$1

fi

line_count=0

while IFS= read -r line; do

echo "$line"

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line_count=$(( line_count + 1 ))

if (( line_count == 10 )); then

break

fi

done < "$file"

16. Code for Shell script to perform operations like compare string, concatenate, find
length, occurrence of word in a string and reverse a string:

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

# Compare strings

string1="Hello"

string2="World"

if [[ $string1 == $string2 ]]; then

echo "Strings are equal"

else
echo "Strings are not equal"

fi

# Concatenate strings

concatenated="$string1 $string2"

echo "Concatenated string: $concatenated"

# Find length of a string

length=${#string1}

echo "Length of string1: $length"

# Occurrence of word in a string

string="This is a test string"

word="test"

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occurrences=$(grep -o -w "$word" <<< "$string" | wc -l)

echo "Occurrences of '$word' in the string: $occurrences"

# Reverse a string

reverse=$(rev <<< "$string")

echo "Reversed string: $reverse"

17. Code for Write a shell script to sort the given numbers in descending order using
Bubble sort:

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

numbers=(5 2 8 1 9 3)

n=${#numbers[@]}

for (( i=0; i<n-1; i++ )); do

for (( j=0; j<n-i-1; j++ )); do

if (( numbers[j] < numbers[j+1] )); then

temp=${numbers[j]}

numbers[j]=${numbers[j+1]}

numbers[j+1]=$temp

fi

done

done

echo "Sorted numbers in descending order:"

for (( i=0; i<n; i++ )); do

echo "${numbers[i]}"

done

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18. Write a script which reads a text file and output the following: Count of characters,
words, and lines. File in reverse. Frequency of a particular word in the file. Lower case
letter in place of upper case letter:

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

file="[Link]"

# Count of characters

characters=$(wc -m < "$file")

# Count of words

words=$(wc -w < "$file")

# Count of lines

lines=$(wc -l < "$file")

# File in reverse

reverse=$(tac "$file")

# Frequency of a particular word

word="example"

frequency=$(grep -o -w "$word" "$file" | wc -l)

# Lower case letter in place of upper case letter

lowercase=$(tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' < "$file")

echo "Count of characters: $characters"

echo "Count of words: $words"

echo "Count of lines: $lines"

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echo "File in reverse:"

echo "$reverse"

echo "Frequency of '$word': $frequency"

echo "Lower case letter in place of upper case letter:"

echo "$lowercase"

19. Write a shell script to print numbers 1 to 20 in reverse and calculate the sum of odd
numbers:

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

sum=0

for (( i=20; i>=1; i-- )); do

echo "$i"

if (( i % 2 != 0 )); then

sum=$(( sum + i ))

fi

done

echo "Sum of odd numbers: $sum"

20. Write the menu-driven form which has the following options: Contents of
/etc/passwd, List of users who have currently logged in, Present working directory, Exit
(Quit):

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

while true; do

echo "1) Contents of /etc/passwd"

echo "2) List of users who have currently logged in"

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echo "3) Present working directory"

echo "4) Exit (Quit)"

read -p "Enter your choice: " choice

case $choice in

1)

cat /etc/passwd

;;

2)

who

;;

3)

pwd

;;

4)

break

;;

*)

echo "Invalid choice"

;;

esac

done

21. Write a shell script to find out how many files and directories are there in the current
directory and also list file and directory names separately:

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

file_count=$(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l)

directory_count=$(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l)

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echo "Number of files: $file_count"

echo "Number of directories: $directory_count"

echo "Files:"

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec basename {} \;

echo "Directories:"

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec basename {} \;

22. Code for Write a shell script that receives any number of filenames as arguments. The
shell script should check whether such files already exist:

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

for file in "$@"; do

if [[ -e $file ]]; then

echo "$file exists"

else

echo "$file does not exist"

fi

done

23. Write a shell script to input a filename and display the content of the file in a manner
that each line has only 10 characters. If a line in a file exceeds 10 characters, the remaining
characters should be printed on the next line:

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

read -p "Enter a filename: " filename

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while IFS= read -r line; do

while (( ${#line} > 10 )); do

echo "${lin[Link]}"

line="${line:10}"

done

echo "$line"

done < "$filename"

24. Write a shell script to display all words that have a length greater than N characters
from file N, and the filename must be passed from the command line (validation
required):

Ans =>
shell

#!/bin/bash

if (( $# != 2 )); then

echo "Usage: $0 <filename> <N>"

exit 1

fi

filename=$1

N=$2

while IFS= read -r word; do

if (( ${#word} > N )); then

echo "$word"

fi

done < "$filename"

25. A shell script that accepts two filenames as arguments, checks if the permissions for
these files are identical, and if the permissions are identical, output common permissions;
otherwise, output each filename followed by its permissions:

Ans =>

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shell

#!/bin/bash

if (( $# != 2 )); then

echo "Usage: $0 <file1> <file2>"

exit 1

fi

file1=$1

file2=$2

permissions1=$(stat -c "%a" "$file1")

permissions2=$(stat -c "%a" "$file2")

if [[ $permissions1 == $permissions2 ]]; then

echo "Common permissions: $permissions1"

else

echo "$file1 permissions: $permissions1"

echo "$file2 permissions: $permissions2"

fi

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