OPERATING SYSTEM

LAB REPORT-2

EXERCISE - 2 VIMALATHITHAN D
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AIM:
To implement the UNIX commands.
COMMANDS:
1. uptime Command:

Show how long the system has been running.

2. reboot Command:

Reboot the system

3. date Command:

Display the current date and time in the default format.

4. date in a specific format:

to display the date in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

5. Set System Date and Time:

You can set the system date and time using the -s option followed by the desired date
and time.

6. Display Time in UTC:

To display the current time in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

7. Display Date and Time in a specific Timezone:

You can specify a timezone using the TZ environment variable.

8. Display Day of the week:

To display the day of the week along with the date.

9. Display Time in 12-Hour Format:

To display the current time in 12-hour format with AM/PM indication.

10. lslogins:

Display all login.

11. history Command:

To display the history.

12. Display Time in Unix Timestamp:

To display the current time in Unix timestamp format (number of seconds since January
1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC).
13. Display Date and Time with Timezone Offset:

To display the current date and time along with the timezone offset.

14. Display Date and Time in ISO 8601 Format:

To display the current date and time in ISO 8601 format with timezone information.

15. Display Date and Time of a specific File:

To display the last modification time of a specific file.

16. Calculate Future or Past Dates:

You can calculate future or past dates by adding or subtracting days.

17. Display Date in Julian Day Format:

To display the current date in Julian day format.

18. Display date in week number format:

To display the current week number of the year

19. Display Time in nanoseconds:

To display the current time in nanoseconds

20. Display Date and time in RFC 2822 Format:

To display the current date and time in RFC 2822 format

21. Display Date and Time in RFC 3339 Format:

To display the current date and time in RFC 3339 format (ISO 8601 extended format).

22. Display date and time in seconds since the Epoch:

To display the current date and time in seconds since the epoch (January 1, 1970).
23. Display date and time in a Custom Format:

You can create custom date and time formats using various format specifiers.

24. Display time in different times zones:

To display the current time in a particular location.

25. Display date and time in UTC:

To display the current date and time in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

26. Display time in hours,minutes and seconds only:

To display the current time without the date.

27. Display date and time in seconds with nanoseconds:

To display the current date and time with seconds and nanoseconds.
28. Display day of the year:

To display the day of the year (1-365 or 1-366 for leap years).

29. Display week number with week starting on Sunday or Monday:

To display the week number with the week starting on Sunday or Monday.

30. Display date and time in a specific format with timezone:

To display the date and time in a custom format with a specific timezone.

31. Display day of the week:

To display the day of the week.

32. Display Abbreviated Month name:

To display the abbreviated month name.

33. Display date and time in RFC 2822 format with Timezone:

To display the date and time in RFC 2822 format with timezone.

34. year Command:

To display the present year.

35. w Command:

This command tells about the users who are logged in and what are they doing.

36. usage Command:

Displays the short information about the whatis command.

37. man -aw Command:

List all available sections of a command.

38. sort Command:

The sort command is used to sort files in alphabetical order.

39. id Command:

This command basically prints the information of real and effective user or in other
words the current user.

40. printf Command:

Format and print data.

41. nano Command:

A simple command-line text editor.

42. vi Command:

A classic text editor with modes for insertion and command.

43. pico Command:

A simple text editor similar to ‘nano’.

44. xdg-open Command:

Open a file using the default application associated with its MIME type.

45. mcedit Command:

The text editor included in the Midnight Commander file manager.

46. ex Command:

A line-oriented text editor, similar to vi but with a different interface.

47. tail Comment:

The best use case of tail in my opinion is when called with the -f option. It opens the file at
the end, and watches for file changes. Any time there is new content in the file, it is printed
in the window.
48. who Comment:

The who command displays the users logged in to the system.

49. whoami Comment:

Type whoami to print the user name currently logged in to the terminal session.

50. which Comment:

The Linux which command is used to locate the executable files or location of a program
from the file system.