bash

This is the archived website of SI 413 from the Fall 2012 semester. Feel free to browse around; you may also find more recent offerings at my teaching page.

bash (the Bourne Again SHell) was created in 1989 by Brian Fox. bash is a shell-scripting language designed for orchestrating a wide variety of tasks in *nix operating systems. Also supports filesystem interaction and limited numeric and string-processing utilities.

Useful Links

Homepage on GNU. Has link to the full manual.
Wikipedia page
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide. Indispensable.
99 bottles of beer program.

How I will run your code

Save your programs in a file called proj.sh. I will test your code in the same environment as the lab machines in MI 302, using the command

/bin/bash --norc proj.sh

Phase 1 Requirements

For this language, you need to implement modifications A, B, C, D, F, H, and I. See the Phase 1 page for details on what this means.

Phase 2

See the Phase 2 Page for the list of suggested problems. Of the ones listed, I recommend the following as being most well-suited for bash:

Compiler
Make
Hangman
TODO list
Game with hidden agenda
Frequency count
??? (you choose!)