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The purpose of this homework is to give you a chance to focus your knowledge of UNIX Chapter 5.

Homework Information

Do problems 5.1-11.

Tip: Many special characters are automatically escaped in modern *nix systems (like Linux) when filename completion is invoked. This most notably includes spaces, but also some others.


To hand this in, make sure you script your experiments. (But avoid scripting a vi session. [You may want to try this to see why I say not to, but make it a short session.] You can avoid this by simply having multiple terminal windows open: script in one and vi in another.)

This assignment is (Level 2.5).