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OS Lab Assignment 1 Solution

The document provides solutions for an Operating System lab assignment, detailing Unix/Linux commands along with their descriptions and examples. It includes C code snippets for simulating the 'ls' command, performing file operations such as create, read, and copy, and comparing 'lseek()' with 'stat()' for file size retrieval. Additionally, it demonstrates how to retrieve directory and inode information using C programming.

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OS Lab Assignment 1 Solution

The document provides solutions for an Operating System lab assignment, detailing Unix/Linux commands along with their descriptions and examples. It includes C code snippets for simulating the 'ls' command, performing file operations such as create, read, and copy, and comparing 'lseek()' with 'stat()' for file size retrieval. Additionally, it demonstrates how to retrieve directory and inode information using C programming.

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Operating System Lab (CS33201) –

Assignment 1 Solutions
1. Study of Unix/Linux General Purpose Commands
Command | Description | Example

--------- | -------------------------------- | -------------------------

man | Help manual | man ls

who | Who is logged in | who

cat | Display file content | cat file.txt

cd | Change directory | cd /home/user

cp | Copy files/directories | cp a.txt b.txt

ps | Process status | ps aux

ls | List files | ls -l

mv | Move/Rename file | mv old.txt new.txt

rm | Remove file | rm file.txt

mkdir | Make directory | mkdir folder

rmdir | Remove empty directory | rmdir folder

echo | Print to terminal | echo Hello

more | View file page-wise | more file.txt

date | Show date/time | date

time | Measure execution time | time ./a.out

kill | Terminate process | kill -9 PID

history | Show command history | history

chmod | Change permissions | chmod 755 file.sh

chown | Change file owner | chown user file.txt

pwd | Print working directory | pwd


cal | Display calendar | cal

logout | Logout of shell | logout

shutdown | Shut down system | shutdown now

2. Simulate `ls` in C
#include <stdio.h>

#include <dirent.h>

int main() {

struct dirent *de;

DIR *dr = opendir(".");

if (dr == NULL) return 0;

while ((de = readdir(dr)) != NULL)

printf("%s\n", de->d_name);

closedir(dr);

return 0;

3. File Operations in C
Create/Write:

int fd = open("file.txt", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0644);

write(fd, "Hello OS Lab", 12);

close(fd);

Read:

char buffer[100];

int fd = open("file.txt", O_RDONLY);

read(fd, buffer, 100);


printf("Content: %s\n", buffer);

close(fd);

Copy File:

int src = open("file.txt", O_RDONLY);

int dest = open("copy.txt", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0644);

char buffer[1024]; int n;

while ((n = read(src, buffer, 1024)) > 0)

write(dest, buffer, n);

close(src); close(dest);

Reverse Read:

off_t size = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);

for (off_t i = 1; i <= size; i++) {

lseek(fd, -i, SEEK_END);

read(fd, &ch, 1); write(1, &ch, 1);

4. lseek() vs stat()
off_t size = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);

stat("file.txt", &st);

printf("Size using lseek: %ld\n", size);

printf("Size using stat: %ld\n", st.st_size);

5. Directory + Inode info


chdir("/your/target/path");

getcwd(cwd, sizeof(cwd));
DIR *d = opendir(".");

while ((dir = readdir(d)) != NULL) {

stat(dir->d_name, &st);

printf("File: %s, Inode: %ld\n", dir->d_name, st.st_ino);

closedir(d);

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