CS 3000 -- Lab Assignment #1

Using Unix -- Read this material.  Do the exercises here that
you don't understand completely.  Work with a partner

1.  a. login                 

b. Change your password if you have not given yourself an
appropriate password.  (On Suns, use nispasswd.)

c. If you change your password logout and then log back in to
make sure your new password works the way you think it should.

2.  Do a man ls and read the DESCRIPTION section, and look at
some of the options such as -l, -a, -F, and -C

3. a. Do  ls ~john 
This does an ls on my home directory.  Remember that the ~ is a special 
symbol that means "home directory of".  It allows you to access home 
directories when you only know someone's user name.  ~john is one example 
of a relative path name.
   b. Do  ls -l ~john

	 Look at the information and ask someone what it means
	  or go back and do man on ls again.  Find a directory
	  that you will be able to cd to.

   c. Do a  cd  to the directory you found in part b.
   d. Look around and see what is there (if you get stuck ask for help)
   e. Look for an ascii file.  If you don't find one where you
      are, try moving into a different sub-directory of ~john.
   f. Do cp filename ~/ where "filename" means the name of the ascii file you 
      found.  This command copies the files into your home directory.
   g. Do cd ~ or just cd   (This cd's you back into your home directory)

4. a. Do an  ls  on your home directory
   b. Do an  ls -al  on your home directory
   c. Do  mkdir CS3000
   d. Do another ls or ls -al and look at the permissions on
      the directory you just created
   e. Move the file you copied in step 3f into the new CS3000
      directory using the mv command
   f. Repeat steps 3 & 4 for a different file except don't make
      a new directory this time.  

5.  a. Take a look at a file using more
    b. Take a look at a file using less
    c. Take a look at a file using cat
    d. Take a look at the file using cat, piping the file thru more            

6.  a. Do a man on the rm command.  Read the DESCRIPTION
       section and several of the descriptions of options.
    b. Remove one of the files you made in step 3f.
    
7.  a. Do a pwd (this tells you the current working directory) 
    b. Do a  cd  to your home directory
    c. Do a  pwd  again
    d. Remove the other file you copied in step 3f, unless you
       want to hold on to it for a while.