COMP2101

COMP2101 - Administrative Shell Scripting - Miscellaneous Topics in Bash

Introduction

In this lesson, we introduce using functions, error handling, signals, jobs, data typing, and user dialog beautification.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this lesson, students will know how to:

These objectives are in support of Learning Outcomes 2, 5, and 6 in the Course Outline.

To do List

Lesson Material

Learning Activity

Participate in the class and review the presentation. Briefly review any materials available online mentioned in the presentation.

Do the Advanced Topics Lab.

Graded Activity

Most of the lab is designed to give you hands-on experience and allow you to research and practice the details of the tasks in the lab. Only specific tasks in the lab are graded and the lab instructions tell you what parts of the lab activity are graded. In order to be graded, your work must be pushed to your github repository, and after you click submit on the lab assignment item on blackboard with the URL for your github repository in the comments, you must show your work to the professor to receive your marks.

Quiz

When you have participated in the class and completed the lab, you will be prepared to write the quiz. The quiz is found on Blackboard under Assignments & Tests. The quizzes provide your testing mark for this semester.

Summary

In this module, several advanced topics have been introduced. The tasks students should now be capable of include:

Completing the quiz will provide students with a measure of their knowledge in these areas. For the next class students should have their computing environment available with access to Windows 10 and their github repository.