CpSc 101 Lab 1 Fall 2015 Introduction to Systems and C

How to login

On the login screen is a place to enter your user name, and four controls:

"Language", "Session", "Restart", and "Shutdown"

• These controls are generally not useful, but you might “session” useful in rare instances of severe “desktop malfunction.” • your CU username in the space provided and then press the enter key. • When prompted, enter your password to complete the login procedure.

Managing Files and directories

Creating directories

• Open a terminal window • Enter the command. (It stands for “print working directory”). The working directory should be "/users/your_username". This is also known as your home directory. Terminal windows open to this location by default. All your files and directories will be kept in a directory tree with this directory as root. • Enter 101 to create a directory for your CPSC 101 files. • Enter to list the contents of the current directory. You should see the new 101 directory. • Enter 101 to change to the 101 directory. • Enter mkdir lab1 to create a directory for today's lab. • Enter mkdir temp to create a temporary directory.

Creating Files

• Select the Applications control on the top panel and then left click "Text Editor". This will start the gedit text editor. You may also want to create a gedit launcher on the top panel or on the desktop. • You can use gedit to create and edit any type of text files including C programs. For now, create a named .txt and save it in 101/temp/. • In a terminal window, cd to your 101/temp/ directory. • Type ls to see if the test.txt is in the right spot. If it is not, go back to gedit and save it there now. • Now in the terminal window type pico test.txt. This should open your file in a text-based editor. You can edit your files this way without gedit. Feel free to changes. • Use the commands the bottom to save and . • You can also use vim instead of pico when choosing a text-based editor. To use vim, type vim test.txt. There is a vim “cheat sheet” located at http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~yfeaste/cpsc101/CPSC101F15Yvon/Lectures/vimCheatSheet.pdf that you may use to get started with some of the commonly used vim commands.

Deleting Files and directories

• In the terminal window in the 101/temp/ directory, delete test.txt by typing test.txt • Type ls and confirm the file is gone. • Leave the temp directory by typing cd .. to return to the parent 101 directory. • Now delete the temp directory by typing temp. Notice that files are removed with rm, but directories are removed with rmdir.

1 Writing a C Program You are going use the gedit text editor to create a simple C program that will print the words "Hello, world!" to the screen. In the gedit window type in the following program:

#include int main() { ("Hello, world\n"); return(0); } After entering the above text, save the file in 101/lab1/ as simple.c

Compiling a C Program

• In terminal window, cd to 101/lab1/. Enter ls to confirm simple.c is there. • To compile simple.c enter the command: gcc simple.c • If there are errors, go back and confirm you entered the program correctly. • If there are no errors, use ls to confirm that the compiled machine language program (the executable) was created with the name a.out. • To run the program enter the command: ./a.out The ./ is used to tell the system that a.out is in the current directory. • "Hello, world!" should print on its own line.

Turn In Work

• Edit simple.c to print out Hello World 5 times; rename the file as lab1.c, compile it and run it. • Show your TA that you completed the assignment. Then submit your lab1.c program using the handin page: http://handin.cs.clemson.edu

2 Optional: Accessing Unix From Windows

• Your laptop should already have Secure Shell Client (SSH) installed on it. If not, you can download it from http://download.clemson.edu • Run SSH. • Press Enter to open a connection dialog. • Type a host name: • If you are on campus, you can use koala1.cs.clemson.edu, or koala2.cs.clemson.edu, . . . koala24.cs.clemson.edu. There are other systems as well you can connect to instead of the koala machines: there are 27 joey machines and 22 imp machines. • If you are not on campus, you will have to use access1.cs.clemson.edu or access2.cs.clemson.edu for the initial connection. Once you are connected to either access1 or access2, you must immediately type: ssh named_machine.cs.clemson.edu because access1 and access2 need to be kept free for incoming connections. • Type your CU username and click connect. • You may be prompted to confirm first- connection to the server. click Yes. • Type your password and click OK. • You should now be logged onto a UNIX machine. You cannot use GUI tools such as gedit, however any text-based tools (vim, pico, gcc, ls, . . .) are available. • When you are finished, log out using exit

Optional: Accessing Unix From a Mac:

• Open up a Terminal window (if Terminal is not already located in the dock at the bottom, you should be able to find it under Applications/Utilities.) • Type the following if ON CAMPUS: • ssh user_id@machine_name.cs.clemson.edu replacing user_id with your Clemson user id and machine_name with one of the named machines. • If you are OFF CAMPUS, you can first log into either access1 or acces2 first, so type: ssh [email protected] OR ssh [email protected]

AND then follow that with another ssh command to log into one of the named machines: ssh named_machine.cs.clemson.edu

• use koala1.cs.clemson.edu, or koala2.cs.clemson.edu, . . . koala24.cs.clemson.edu. There are other systems as well you can connect to instead of the dragon machines: there are 27 joey machines and 22 imp machines. • You should now be logged onto a UNIX machine. You cannot use GUI tools such as gedit, however any text-based tools (vim, pico, gcc, ls, . . .) are available. • When you are finished, log out using exit (exiting twice if you connected with one of the access machines and then a named machine).

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