Question

Use Vi text editor or ATOM to create a bash script file. Use the file name ayaan.sh. The script when ran it will execute the following commands all at once as script. Test your script file make sure it works.

Here is the list of actions the script will do:

1. It will create the following directory structure data2/new2/mondaynews off your home directory.
2. inside the mondaynews, create 4 files sports.txt, baseball.txt, file1.txt and file2.txt. Make sure file1.txt and file2.txt are hidden files.
3. Next use the ls command to display all 4 files in the mondaynews directory including the hidden files
4. The next action redirect the result of the command you ran in #3 to a new file called show4files.txt
5. Return the user to his/her home directory.

Thank you in advance. Please show screenshots so I can learn what you did. I'm stuck

Answer 1

BASH Script:

#!/bin/bash

# Go to home directory first
cd ~
# Create directory structure data2/new2/mondaynews in the home directory
mkdir data2
mkdir data2/new2
mkdir data2/new2/mondaynews

# Go to mondaynews folder
cd data2/new2/mondaynews

# Create four files sports.txt, baseball.txt, file1.txt and file2.txt
# Here file1 and file2 are hidden by using dot (.) before their names
touch sports.txt baseball.txt .file1.txt .file2.txt

# Display all files (hidden and not hidden) using ls command
ls -a

# Redirect output of ls command to a new file called show4files.txt
ls -a > show4files.txt

# Return to home directory
cd ~

BASH SCRIPT SCREENSHOT:

TERMINAL OUTPUT:

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