CPT $180$ Bash Assignment

Directions

Using the following guidelines, create a Bash program.

$1.$ You will be using the CPT$180$Stuff folder from Chapter $9$ for this assignment.

$2.$ Create a Bash program named workWithFiles$3.$sh

$3.$ Add four comment lines at the top of the program that contain:

a$.$ Program Name

b$.$ Program Description

c$.$ Programmer's Name $($You$)$

d$.$ Current Date

$4.$ Write code that will do the following:

a$.$ Using an if statement, determine if both the dognames.txt file and the catnames.txt file

exist. If both files exist, the program should complete steps b $$ e below. If either file does

not exist, the program should print out the message "Unable to access one or more files".

b$.$ Print the contents of the dognames.txt file.

c$.$ Print the contents of the catnames.txt file.

d$.$ Add two cat names to the catnames.txt file. You can pick the names. The example output

below shows the names Sassy and Lucy added.

e$.$ Print the contents of the catnames.txt file.

$5.$ At the end of your code, using comment lines, answer the following question:

a$.$ In Bash, what are the six indicators that can be used to check for file attributes? What does

each one check for?

$6.$ Submit the workWithFiles$3.$sh file into the Bash Assignment Submission Folder.

Notes$/$Hints

$1.$ The echo command when used to append to a file adds a newline after the item is appended.

$2.$ DO NOT use the BASH environmental variable IFS in this assignment. It is not covered in this course

and is not necessary for this code.

$3.$ When using Cygwin, you can access the Windows drives by using the cygdrive device. For

example, if your CPT$180$Stuff folder is located in the root directory of the E drive, you could access

the dognames.txt file from your Bash program by using the path:

$/$cygdrive$/$e$/$cpt$180$stuff$/$pets$/$dogs$/$dognames$.$txt