Assignment 2 Announcements

Oct 7: Ambiguity in Part 1

The handout says that your program will create a directory called backup, but the example shows a directory called backups. Please follow the instructions in the handout and create directories called "backups".

Oct 7: Part 2 is now available

I modified the original assignment description to include a statement on which files to submit.

Oct 3: Dos files

If you edit files on your Windows machine and then transfer them to the Linux machines, you may get strange behaviour with the shell programs. This happens because Dos uses two characters for a new line (carriage-return line-feed), which Unix/Linux uses one (line-feed). Depending on the editor you use in Unix/Linux, the extra characters may show up as "^M".

CDF has a good web page describing the difference between the files, and how to convert them. You can use ~reid/bin/dos2unix on the linux machines. It's a perl program, so you could study it too. :-)

Oct 3: Typos in the example

There were some typos in the example on the handout that made it confusing. I've fixed it on the handout now so it should make sense.

Oct 1: Parts 1 and 2

The shell programming part of the assignment (Part 1) is availble now. The Perl programming section (Part 2) will be available in the next day or two.