IT 244: Introduction to Linux/Unix
Class 27

Review


New Material


Microphone

Final Exam

The final exam will be held on Tuesday, May 20th from 3:00 - 6:00 PM.

If for some reason you are not able to take the Final at the time it will be offered, you MUST send an email to me before the exam so we can make alternative arrangements.

60% of the points on this exam will consist of questions from the Weekly Graded Quizzes.

You do not need to study a Graded Quiz question if the topic is not mentioned in either the Midterm or Final review.

There is a link to the answers to the graded quizze on the class web page.

The other questions I will make up specifically for this exam.

For these questions you will have to know

The last class on Thursday, May 8th, will be a review session.

You will only be responsible for the material in that review session, which you will find here, and the review for the Midterm, which you will find here.

Although the time alloted for the exam is 3 hours, I would expect that most of you would not need that much time.

The final is a closed book exam.

To prevent cheating, certain rules will be enforced during the exam.

Remember, the Midterm and Final determine 50% of your grade.

Course Evaluation

At the end of each semester we offer you the opportunity to say what you think about this course.

What have I done right?

What have I done wrong?

What can I do better?

You are not asked for you name.

So the submissions are anonymous.

I will not see your responses until after I have submitted grades for this course.

We collect this feedback through Course Evaluations.

I will use what you say to make this course better.

To complete the course evaluation, use the following link .

You have until Friday, May 23rd, to submit the evaluation.

No Class Next Week

A normal semester has 28 classes.

But this semester has 29.

I do not have materials for a 29th class.

Next Tuesday I will have Zoom Office Hours, from 9 AM to 5 PM, instead of a class.

The Zoom session will be conducted from my home in Somerville.

Not my office on the UMB campus.

Today's Class

The material we cover today will not be on the final.

Instead, I'll talk about some advanced features of Linux/Unix that you should be aware of.

Class Exercise

Questions

Are there any questions before I begin?

Review

Using Braces, { } , with Variables

Special Parameters

$ - The PID of the Current Shell Process

! - The PID of the Last Process Put into the Background

? - The Exit Status

Positional Parameters

# - The Number of Command Line Arguments

0 - The Pathname of the Script

1 - n - The Command Line Arguments

Attendance

New Material

The [[ ]] Command

&& and || as Command Separators

Who Uses These Features?

Limitations of grep

Regular Expressions

The Characters in Regular Expressions

Ordinary Characters in Regular Expressions

Meta-characters in Regular Expressions

The . Meta-character

The * Meta-character

The + Meta-character

The ? Meta-character

The \ Meta-character

Character Classes

\d and \D Character Classes

The \w and \W Character Classes

The \s and \S Character Classes

Class Exercise 27

Today's Class Exercise is unusual.

It is also optional.

I am asking you to recreate the script I used to test Class Exercise 25.

Let me explain how this script works. Contract for the Web

Class Exercise