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haas:fall2017:unix:cs:csc


Corning Community College


UNIX/Linux Fundamentals



EoCE alternate question activity: Analyzing Shell Script Logic

~~TOC~~

Objective

To gain additional familiarity with shell scripting.

Background

Shell scripting enables you countless possibilities for automating tasks, both menial and sophisticated in nature.

However, like any new tool or concept, one needs to spend time with, and play with things, to get a better understanding.

Exploration

Analyze, poke at, and get running the following script on Lab46:

#!/bin/bash
 
month="`date +%m`"
year="`date +%Y`"
day="`date +%d`"
 
today="${year}${month}${day}"
csem=""
for item in `wget -q -O - http://www.corning-cc.edu/future/acacalendar/ \
        | grep 'Semester begins' | sed 's/\.\.*/:/g' \
        | sed 's/<[/a-z0-9]*>//g' | sed 's/:Semester begins : /:/g' \
        | sed 's/:First Summer Session begins : /:/g' \
        | egrep -o '[FWS][a-z]* [0-9]{4} S[a-z]*:[A-Z][a-z]* [1-9][0-9]?' \
        | tr 'WSF' 'wsf' | sed 's/ \([1-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\) semester/\1/g' \
        | sed 's/ /*/g'`; do
    sm="`echo $item | cut -d':' -f1`"
    out=$(date --date "`echo $item \
        | sed 's/^[a-z]*\([0-9]*\):\([A-Za-z]*\)\*\([0-9]*\)$/\2 \3 \1/'`" \
        +%Y%m%d)
 
    if [ "$today" -ge "$out" ]; then
        csem="$sm"
    fi  
done
echo "$csem"
 
if [ -z "$csem" ]; then
    status=1
else
    status=0
fi
 
exit $status

Questions

  1. What is the purpose of this script?
  2. What is the general flow of operations that takes place in this script?
  3. Explain what today=“${year}${month}${day}“ does.
  4. What does sed 's/<[/a-z0-9]*>//g' appear to do?
  5. What are the raw $item values being iterated in the for loop?
  6. What is the purpose of the if statement?
  7. Any potential bugs that could effect proper operation?
  8. What is the significance of exiting with a value of 0 vs. that of 1?
haas/fall2017/unix/cs/csc.txt · Last modified: 2013/04/22 17:01 by 127.0.0.1