Unix and Shell Programming detail syllabus for Computer Science & Engineering (Cse), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17CS35), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
For all other cse 3rd sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit CSE 3rd Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. The detail syllabus for unix and shell programming is as follows.
Module 1
Introduction, Brief history. Unix Components/Architecture. Features of Unix. The UNIX Environment and UNIX Structure, Posix and Single Unix specification. The login prompt. General features of Unix commands/ command structure. Command arguments and options. Understanding of some basic commands such as echo, printf, ls, who, date, passwd, cal, Combining commands. Meaning of Internal and external commands. The type command: knowing the type of a command and locating it. The man command knowing more about Unix commands and using Unix online manual pages. The man with keyword option and whatis. The more command and using it with other commands. Knowing the user terminal, displaying its characteristics and setting characteristics. Managing the non-uniform behaviour of terminals and keyboards. The root login. Becoming the super user: su command. The /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. Commands to add, modify and delete users. Topics from chapter 2, 3 and 15 of text book 1, chapter 1 from text book 2
Module 2
For complete syllabus and results, class timetable and more pls download iStudy. Its a light weight, easy to use, no images, no pdfs platform to make students life easier.
Module 3
The vi editor. Basics. The .exrc file. Different ways of invoking and quitting vi. Different modes of vi. Input mode commands. Command mode commands. The ex mode commands. Illustrative examples Navigation commands. Repeat command. Pattern searching. The search and replace command. The set, map and abbr commands. Simple examples using these commands. The shells interpretive cycle. Wild cards and file name generation. Removing the special meanings of wild cards. Three standard files and redirection. Connecting commands: Pipe. Splitting the output: tee. Command substitution. Basic and Extended regular expressions. The grep, egrep. Typical examples involving different regular expressions. Topics from chapters 7, 8 and 13 of text.1 Topics from chapter 2 and 9, 10 of Text 2
Module 4
Shell programming. Ordinary and environment variables. The .profile. Read and readonly commands. Command line arguments. exit and exit status of a command. Logical operators for conditional execution. The test command and its shortcut. The if, while, for and case control statements. The set and shift commands and handling positional parameters. The here ( << ) document and trap command. Simple shell program examples. File inodes and the inode structure. File links – hard and soft links. Filters. Head and tail commands. Cut and paste commands. The sort command and its usage with different options. The umask and default file permissions. Two special files /dev/null and /dev/tty. Topics from chapter 11, 12, 14 of Text 1, chapter 17 from Text 2
Module 5
For complete syllabus and results, class timetable and more pls download iStudy. Its a light weight, easy to use, no images, no pdfs platform to make students life easier.
Course Outcomes:
After studying this course, students will be able to: Explain UNIX system and use different commands. Compile Shell scripts for certain functions on different subsystems. Demonstrate use of editors and Perl script writing
Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten questions.
- There will be 2 questions from each module.
- Each question will have questions covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- Sumitabha Das., Unix Concepts and Applications., 4th Edition., Tata McGraw Hill
- Behrouz A. Forouzan, Richard F. Gilberg : UNIX and Shell Programming- Cengage Learning – India Edition. 2009.
Reference Books:
- M.G. Venkatesh Murthy: UNIX & Shell Programming, Pearson Education.
- Richard Blum, Christine Bresnahan : Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible, 2ndEdition, Wiley, 2014.
For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Cse, 2017 scheme do visit Cse 3rd Sem syllabus for 2017 scheme.
Dont forget to download iStudy for latest syllabus and results, class timetable and more.