Unit-1

Introduction

Topic:-1

Tupes of Operating sytem, Multi user & multitasking abilities, The Unix
philosophy, UNIX System V, BSD, XENIX, GNU & Linux

Topic:-2

UNIX Standards: SVID, POSIX, OSF, Widely used UNIX variants: Linux,
BSD variants, Solaris, MAC OS X, AIX, HP-UX, UNIXWARE, Tru64 UNIX,
IRIX

Topic:-3

Architecture of the Unix operating system

Unit-2

The UNIX File System

Topic-1

Boot block, super block, Inode table, Data Blocks, File access, storage
of files,

Topic:-2

Locating commands, Internal & external Commands, command

structure, cal, date, echo, printf, bc, script, passwd, who, uname, tty,
stty, pwd, cd, mkdir, rmdir, cat, cp, rm, mv, more, ls, etc.

Topic:-3
Unit-3

Listing file attributes, Listing directory attributes, File ownership, file

permissions, chmod, directory permission, changing file ownership
Process in Unix

Topic-1

Process basics, process status, system processes, mechanism of

process creation, background processes

Topic-2

killing a process, changing process priorities, scheduling of processes,

Commands for process control

Topic-3
Unit-4

Process abstraction, Process.c: process credentials, Process groups,

zombies & orphans, shell.c, Interprocess communication: pipes, signal
handling
Shell Programming

Topic-1

Uses of Shell script, Shell variables, Shell keywords, positional

parameters, passing commandline arguments, arithmetic in shell
script, control instructions in shell

Topic-2

Decision control: if-then-else-fi, file tests, string tests, nested if-eles,

use of logical operators, Case control structure

Topic-3
Unit-5

The loop control structure: while loop, until loop, the for loop, nesting
of loops, break statement, array, function
System Programming

Topic-1

System call, opening-closing files, I/O calls, Buffered & unbuffered I/O

Topic-2

Handling Errors, file sharing, directory navigation, reading a directory,

modifying entries in directory

Topic-3

Projects in shell programming: Payroll processing system, data

organisation, menus, report formats etc.

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