Operating Systems and Shell Programming

Paper Code: 
24CDBA416
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to

  1. Understand basic concepts of Operating systems. followed by study of Linux.
  2. Work with basic commands of Linux

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course

Title

24CDBA

416

Operating Systems and Shell Programming

(Practical)

 

CO229. Analyse the concepts and working of Operating System.

CO230. Examine the architecture of Linux operating system and the reason for open source.

CO231. Execute the basic commands of Linux to manage files and file system.

CO232. Formulate the problem to implement the concepts of redirection, pipes and filters in Linux.

CO233. Design, debug and execute simple shell scripts.

CO234.Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

Approach in teaching: Interactive ectures, Discussion,Readingassignments, Demonstration.

Learning activities for       the

students:    Self learning         assignments, Effective              questions, Simulation,      Seminar presentation.

Class test, Semester  end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation.

 

Contents:

  • Introduction to Operating Systems, history, functions and types of operating system.
  • Process Management: Basic Concepts of process and Process Scheduling, Operation on Processes.
  • Memory Management: Basic Concepts of Logical versus Physical Address space, Swapping, Contiguous allocation (fragmentation), Paging, Segmentation.
  • Linux: GUI, Logging in, Desktop Customization.
  • General Purpose Utilities in Linux (date, cal, who, tty, uname, passwd, bc, script, echo, logging out).
  • Linux File System: file types, file inode, Home directory and Current directory
  • Navigating file system- pwd, cd, mkdir, rmdir,ls.
  • Handling ordinary files-cat, cp, mv, wc, rm, cmp.
  • Basic file attributes- file permissions, changing permissions.
  • Redirection & Pipes
  • Simple filters- head, tail, cut, paste, sort, uniq, tr.
  • Regular expression-Grep utility, Shell command line, redirection, pipeline, split output, tee.
  • Working with Linux Process: Process, Shell process, Process spawning - parent and child process, Process attributes - pid, ppid, Init Process, User process & System process,  ps with options.
  • The Linux Environment: Environment variable vs Local variables, set command,     env command,     SHELL, HOME, PATH, LOGNAME, PS1, PS2, history, ! and ~
  • Types of Text editors, using vi editor, prompt character, correcting typing errors.
  • Basics of System Administration :grep & sed command
  • Basic shell programming Interactive scripts, shell variables,  assigning values to variables, Positional parameters, command line arguments, Arithmetic in shell script,  Decision taking-if else, nested if, file tests, string tests, case control structure. Loop control structure-while and for.

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 

SUGGESTED TEXT BOOKS

  1. Silbersachatz and P.Galvin, “Operating System Concepts 9th Edition- New Delhi: Wiley India- 2011.
  2. Sumitabha Das, “UNIX Concepts and Applications”, Tata McGraw Hill.
     

 

REFERENCES: 

SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS

  1. Mark G. Sobell, “A Practical Guide To Linux Commands, Editors and Shell Programming” Pearson Education.
  2. Madnick E., Donovan J., “Operating Systems”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001
  3. B. W. Kernighan & R. Pike, “The UNIX Programming Environment”, PHI.
     

e RESOURCES

  1. Linux Spoken Tutorial: https://spoken-tutorial.org/tutorial-search/?search_foss=Linux&search_language=English
  2. Java point: https://www.javatpoint.com/linux-tutorial
  3. Tutorial, Ubantu: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/command-line-for-beginners

JOURNALS

  1. Journal of Operating Systems Development & Trends, ISSN: 2454-9355
  2. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing, hindawi Journals. ISSN: 1687-7195 (Print)

 

Academic Year: 
2024-25
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