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The document outlines tasks for a Linux Operating Systems lab, including directory creation, command differentiation, and file manipulation using vim. It covers topics such as environment variables, C compilation, ELF, linking types, and process analysis. Additionally, it includes practical exercises like creating files, setting aliases, and counting entries in a passwd file.

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SEF21 Lab08 Quiz

The document outlines tasks for a Linux Operating Systems lab, including directory creation, command differentiation, and file manipulation using vim. It covers topics such as environment variables, C compilation, ELF, linking types, and process analysis. Additionally, it includes practical exercises like creating files, setting aliases, and counting entries in a passwd file.

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Operating Systems

Lab – 08

Linux Environment
Perform all the tasks on your machine and write in your notebook the particular one’s.
1. Create a lab08/ directory on your desktop and perform the practical tasks in it.

Task 01:

a) Differentiate between internal and external commands with examples?


b) Define vim and explain all its 3 modes? (2)
c) What is the role of environment variables in the system and how to list all of them?
d) Draw the Diagram of C compilation and explain the process? (2)
e) What is ELF and its role in the operating system?
f) Differentiate between Static and Dynamic Linking with example?
g) Analyze the image below and give the absolute path of the photos directory and also its
relative path if you are in the lib directory?

h) Write a command to extract the files from a tarball?


i) How do external commands executed in the shell explain the procedure?

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Task 02:

a) Create a file named README using vim and write “Everything in UNIX is a file” in it. Save
and close the file.
b) Open the file README again and copy the line and paste 5 times and then delete the 3rd
and 4th line and then undo the last 2 things you have done using vim modes.
c) Copy the file /etc/passwd and paste in your current directory lab08/. Now concatenate
both files passwd and README.
d) Create an alias named clc that does the work of clearing the screen. Make sure this alias will
be permanent.
e) Replace all the occurrences of your username with linux in the passwd placed in your
current directory.
f) Write a command to get information about how long the system has been running?
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main()
{
pid_t child_pid = fork();
if (child_pid > 0)
sleep(50);
else
exit(0);
return 0;
}

g) Copy the code in some .c file, compile it and run the binary and Analyze the running
processes in the system. Your task is to find out what the program is doing?
h) Create a local variable in the shell and print its value in the string echoing in the terminal.
(echo Learning $var is fun) and var containing the word “linux”.
i) Link a C program statically and dynamically using appropriate flags?
j) Count the nologin string entries in the passwd file using a single line command (Use pipes).

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“Opportunities don't happen, you create them.”

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