You can look at some examples of shell scripts which do curious and educational ( and probably useless ) things.
The assignment itself is now available - and there are also some amendments which have been circulated by electronic mail.
And now it's all over, bar the marking ( which is proceeding ), so here are some notes and suggested answers.
Here's the assignment sheet.
Here's the assignment sheet.
Alan Creak and Robert Sheehan,
July, 1998.
Go to Alan;
Go to Robert;
Go to the 340 course page;
Go to Computer Science.