Wildcards in class activity instructions

Before you start

  • Run the script wildcardInClass.sh. Use this command:
curl https://cis106.com/assets/scripts/wildcardInClass.sh | bash
  • This will create the directory inClassActivity in your home directory. It contains all the files and directories we will use.

The asterisk (start) wildcard

  1. List all the files in the ~/inClassActivity/star/ directory in a single column and sorted by entry extension
  2. Create a new directory in ~/inClassActivity/star/ called myhomework and move all the homework files to it.
  3. Remove all the text files in ~/inClassActivity/star/
  4. Create a new directory in ~/inClassActivity/star/ called Notes and copy all the PDF files with an _ in the name to it.

Take a screenshot to submit later in the in-class activity dropbox

The Question mark wildcard

  1. Change your current working directory to ~/inClassActivity/qmark
  2. Long list all the hidden files in your current working directory with no group, no owner, time-style set to +%a and human-readable file size.
  3. List all the hidden files in the parent directory (~/inClassActivity/)
  4. Create a new directory in ~/inClassActivity/qmark called other and move all the hidden files we listed before to this new directory.

Take a screenshot to submit later in the in-class activity dropbox

The square brackets wildcard

  1. Change your current working directory to ~/inClassActivity/qmark
  2. List all the png files that start with a capital letter
  3. List all the png files that have a lowercase letter before the file extension.
  4. Create a directory called imgs and move all the files with a full date in the name to it.

Take a screenshot to submit later in the in-class activity dropbox

Brace Expansion

  1. Create a new directory in ~/inClassActivity/ called brace and cd into it.
  2. Create the following directory structure inside brace:
movies/
├── horror
│   ├── classic
│   └── modern
├── romance
│   ├── classic
│   └── modern
└── scifi
    ├── classic
    └── modern

10 directories, 0 files
  1. Inside horror, romance, and scifi, create 2 text files using your username as part of the file name. Here is an example of the file’s names: old-list-USERNAME-HERE.lst and new-list-USERNAME-HERE.lst. After the files are created, this is how the tree of the movies directory should look:
movies/
├── horror
│   ├── classic
│   ├── modern
│   ├── new-list-rap.lst
│   └── old-list-rap.lst
├── romance
│   ├── classic
│   ├── modern
│   ├── new-list-rap.lst
│   └── old-list-rap.lst
└── scifi
    ├── classic
    ├── modern
    ├── new-list-rap.lst
    └── old-list-rap.lst

10 directories, 6 files

What will you submit for extra credit

  1. In your cis106 directory/local repository, create a new directory called “ExtraCredit” (One word no spaces in file names pleases!)
  2. Inside “ExtraCredit”, create another directory called “extra7”
  3. Open your cis106 directory/local repository in VS Code
  4. Inside “extra7” create a markdown file called “extra7.md”
  5. Add all the screenshots to “extra7.md” using proper markdown syntax and labeling each screenshot using heading 2 formatting. Save the markdown file.
  6. Your markdown document should start with the following heading 1: # Extra Credit 7: Wildcards 2
  7. Convert your file to PDF
  8. Run the github commands, in VS Code Terminal, to push all your changes to github:
    1. gid add .
    2. git commit -m "Completed Extra 5"
    3. git push
  9. In blackboard submit the following:
    1. The URL of extra7.md
    2. The PDF file extra7.pdf