BASH SHELL LAB EXERCISES

Lab 49: First Script

1:Write a script called greetme that will do the following:

  1. Contain a comment section with your name, the name of this script, and the purpose of this script.

  2. Greet the user.

  3. Print the date and the time.

  4. Print a calendar for this month.

  5. Print the name of your machine.

  6. Print the name and release of this operating system, (cat /etc/motd).

  7. Print a list of all files in your parent directory.

  8. Print all the processesroot is running.

  9. Print the value of the TERM, PATH, and HOME variables.

  10. Print your disk usage (du).

  11. Use theid command to print your group ID.

  12. Print Please couldn't you loan me $50.00?

  13. Tell the user Good bye and the current hour (see man pages for the date command).

2:Make sure your script is executable. ...

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