CSC220 Lab 1 2010

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You can work in pairs on this lab if you wish. Otherwise work individually.

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  • Login to a Linux box around you using your CSC220a account.

Question Group 1

Question 1
What is the path of your account? In other words, what subdirectories does one have to traverse to reach your account.


Question 2
What other subdirectories are at the same height as yours in the directory tree?


You will notice that all user accounts are in a major directory called Users. The old standard for users on a linux system is to have the users in a directory called home in the root directory.


Question 3
You will notice that some user accounts still exist in home. Which are they?

Question Group 2

With Linux, the name of the printers supported are listed in a file called /etc/printcap. Look at its contents.


Question 1
Figure out a way to get only the entries from this file that represent printers that are in Ford Hall.

Question Group 3

Open a browser window and load up the following URL: http://maven.smith.edu/~hadoop/log.txt
Notice that it is a long log of the output of a research program I have been running recently. It is very long and contains a lot of information: some useful, some not.
You are going to get a copy of this file into your account. Instead of copying and pasting the text into a file, you are going to use a useful utility called wget. Wget is a Linux utility that allows you to grab Web pages from Web sites, without using a browser.
Try it:
 wget http://maven.smith.edu/~hadoop/log.txt
Check that the file is in your directory


Question 1
How many lines of text does the file contain?


Question 2
The second question is to list only the lines that list the real execution time. These lines look like this:
real	23m6.777s


Go ahead, list the real execution times. What is the shortest time recorded? The longest?
Question 3
List not only the real execution times, but also the lines of the form:
processing noTasks = 17240  maxNoTasks = 8,  splitSize = 33554432L