2. Week Five Agenda Announcements Link of the week
Review week four lab assignment
This week’s expected outcomes
Next lab assignment
Break-out problems
Read assignments
Upcoming deadlines
Lab assistance, questions and answers

3. Announcements
The midterm and the final exam are both electronic. Please verify that your testing facility can administer this type of test.
The midterm exam will be February 14 through 19, 2011.
The midterm exam outline has been posted under the Bulletin Board.

4. Link of the week Data Disaster Ontrack Data Recovery
Ironkey USB Flash Drive
Data Disaster Helpful Hints
- Use dedicated circuits for your connection
- Keep your computer cool and in a dry place
- Use a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply)
- Don’t assume that your data is permanently destroyed even if the situation looks bad
- Secure your work area and devices

5. Link of the week Data Disaster Big and small company operations
Backup services
Trouble shooting
Data recovery

6. Review week four lab assignment
What is an object file?
Object code is a representation of code generated by a compiler after it processes a programming language code file. It contains compact, pre-parsed code, often referred to as binaries that can be linked with other object files to generate a final executable.

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What is ELF?
Executable and Linking Format (ELF) is a common standard file format for executables, object code, shared libraries, and core dumps.

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Online Documentation
There are some websites that have Perl documentation. The two biggest ones are:
for modules

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Perl Syntax
; End of statement delimiter
, Comma for line continuation
\n New line (non-printable character)
<> The "diamond operator", <> is used when a program is expecting input, but isn't concerned how it arrives.
Demonstrate: diamond_oper.pl

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Perl Variable Syntax
$ Singular variables prefix (single value, number or string)
@ Prefix for plural variable (array)
% Prefix for plural variable (hash)
$_ Default variable
$0 Contains the name of the program being run
$_ Is the "it" variable. It's often the default parm that built-in functions use, or return into.

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Perl Syntax
while ( … ) {
Action statements }
What is a continuous loop?
while ( 2 ) {
Demonstrate: perl_it.pl, perl_debug.pl, and perl_loop.pl

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Perl Syntax If ( … ) { Action statements } elsif

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Perl Syntax
The Perl language does not support case or switch statements. The closest way to achieve case evaluations is as follows:
if ( $condition_one ) {         action_one ();     }     elsif ( $condition_two ) {         action_two ();     }     ...     else {         action_n ();     }

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Perl Syntax If ( …) { Action statements }

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Three Types of for loops
# Old style C for loops
for (my $i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {         $array[$i] = $i;     }
# Iterating loops     for my $i {         print "$i\n";     }

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Three Types of for loops (continued)
# Postfix for loops     print "$_\n"

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Perl Syntax foreach $total (12,9,3,7) { # Sum each value in the list. $sum += $total; }

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Perl Syntax
foreach (-32,10,1,2,0,-1) {
# Valid numbers are considered to be greater than zero
# The default variable is utilized,
if ( $_ > 0 ) {
# Print each valid number on a single output line.
print "$_\n"; }

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Relational Operators
Numeric String Meaning
> gt Greater than
>= ge Greater than or equal to
< lt Less than
<= le Less than or equal to

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Equality Operators
Numeric String Meaning
== eq Equal to
!= ne Not equal to
 cmp Comparison with signed result
The  or cmp operators return 1 if the left operand is less than the right operand, 0if they are equal, and +1 it the left operand is greater than the right.

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Definition: array
Arrays are an ordered list of scalars, accessed by the scalar’s position in the list. Otherwise known as a collection of scalars. In Perl, a scalar means the simplest data type which was designed to hold only one thing like a number, a string or a reference.
Elements in an array are accessed by using an index. Array indexes start with zero.

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Array and Variable Initialization
Initialize an array:
@garage = (“rake”, “mower”, “shovel”);
@persons = (“Will”, “Ken”, “Hazel”, “Jay”);
$count
Unload array elements into variables:
($rake, $mower, $shovel)

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Array Data Structures Array of arrays – Two-dimensional array or a = ( [ “Brenda”, “Clide”, “Kim” ], [ “Melinda”, Terri”, “Sissy” ] [ “Fred”, “Omar”, “Vincent” ] ); print $names [1] [1]; Demonstrate: ~dandrear/Winter2011_Solutions/two_dim.pl

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Definition :Hash (associative array) A hash is similar to an array only because it contains a number of scalars. A hash is different in the case where the element of a structure represents a pair – a key and a value. Whenever we refer to an element of a Perl hash structure, we mean a pair (key and value) which links a value to a key. We have access to the elements of a hash variable by a scalar key. Hash table is an unordered set of scalars, accessed by some string value that is associated with each scalar.

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Hash Initialization %student_ages = ("John", 43, "Paul", 25, "Marie", 22); %members = (John => "father", Paul => "son", Marie => "daughter"); The comma-arrow (=>) operator is used to initialize the %members hash variable in the second line of code. The left side of the comma-arrow operator is expected to be a simple string and therefore it is not necessary to be quoted.

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Hash Initialization (con’t) %all_groups = ( group_name1 => [ “Betty”, “Tom”, “Moe” ], group_name2 => [ “Ali”, “Marcia”, “Sis” ] ); $all_groups{group_name1} [3] = “Sam”; for $couple ( keys %all_groups ) { print }\n; }

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Hash Copy %school_ages = %student_ages Demonstrate: ~dandrear/Winter2011_Solutions/hash_table.pl

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Hash Table Example %colormap=( “12” => “gray”, “19” => “black”, “30” => “red”,); %colormap = (“12”, “gray”, “19”, “black”, “30”, “red”);

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Perl utilizes two types of categories
- Singular variables that represent a single-value. The variable prefix symbol for a scalar is the $.
- Plural variables are ones that contain
multiple-values. Arrays and hashes are two
multi-valued variables.

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Perl data types
$answer = 42; (an integer)
$pi = ; (a “real” number)
$animal = “horse”; (string)
$statement = “I exercise my $animal”; (string with interpolation)
$amount = ‘It cost me $5.00’; (string without interpolation)
$cwd = `pwd`; (string output from a command)
Perl utilizes dynamic data typing of variables.

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Filehandle is utilized for both input and output files. Most file names are cryptic and are meaningless to programmers. The purpose of a filehandle is to help the programmer remember a simple file name throughout a program.
A filehandle is a name given for a file, device, socket, or pipe.
Filehandle command line format:
open(filehandle, file name, permissions, chmod);
Example: open($FH,$file_name);

34. Review week four lab assignment
Practice scripts under the system /tmp directory
awksrc diamond_oper.pl perl_debug.pl
person.sh perl_it.pl perl_loop.pl
two_dim.pl names person.sh
hash_table.pl test_build.sh

35. Weeks four and five expected outcomes
Write Perl scripts, including variables, control flow, and regular expression syntax

36. Next lab assignment Regular Expressions
Search programs – grep, egrep, and findstr.
Text language programs - sed and awk
Text editors – iv and emac
Many other languages use regular expressions and may advertise a particular version of Perl.

37. Next lab assignment Regular Expression Special Characters
* Open square bracket [
* Backslash \
* Caret ^
* Dollar sign $
* Dot
Pipe symbol |
Question mark ?
Asterisk *
* Plus sign +
Opening and closing round brackets ( )

38. Next lab assignment Regular Expression (a.k.a. regex or regexp)
Is a pattern that describes a certain amount of text. A basic regular expression could be the single character, e.g.: a
Jack is a guy.
It will match the first occurrence in the string. If succeeding matches are desired, the regex engine must be instructed to do so.

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Character Classes match only one out of several characters, e.g.: [ae] and gr[ae]y
The order of the characters inside a character class doesn’t matter.
Shorthand Character Classes match single
characters, e.g.: \d and \w and \s and \t
Non-Printable Characters are special character sequence to put non-printable characters in your regular expression, e.g.: \t and \r and \n and \a and \e and \v

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Dot matches almost any character, except line break characters, e.g.: gr.y
Anchors match a position.
Match start of string ^
Match end of a string $
Alternation is the regular expression equivalent of “or”. The search pattern bird | insect will first return “bird. The second match will be “insect”.

41. Next lab assignment
names Bob D'Andrea /19/1947 male Bo Happy /01/1945 male Jane Smith /23/1978 female Razi Jake /26/2005 male The file named “names” contains the above information. There are tabs in two places in the above data. One tab is after the name and after the birth date.

42. Next lab assignment
Without options, print the desired fields in any order. awk ‘{ print $1, $2, $3, $4 }’ names The –F option changes the field separator on the command line. The \t is an Escape Sequence for a horizontal tab. awk –F”\t” ‘{ print $1 }’ names

43. Next lab assignment
makefile Lab Assignment Copy the test_build.sh script from ~dandrear/tmp directory This script executes the make command which in turn executes the makefile Demonstrate: ~dandrear/temp/test_build.sh Display the test_build.sh script

44. Next lab assignment Programming Perl, Chapter 32 Standard Modules
Define: Module
Parsing the command line with Getopt::Std
Example: listdir –l –n –a 10:00 bottom top
Perl to capture the command line arguments
Example: $ARGV[0] ‘-l’
$ARGV[1] ‘-n’
$ARGV[2] ‘-a’
$ARGV[3] ’10:00’
$ARGV[4] ‘bottom’
$ARGV[5] ‘top’

45. Break-out problems Explain the s/pattern/new version/ command
Define a Perl hash table
Define ELF
Define a Perl array
What convenience does a Perl filehandle provide?
What is the functionality of a regular expression?
Are continuous loops useful?
Define an object file
Define common-arrow
Perl default variable
Perl “it” variable
Explain the s/pattern/new version/ command

46. Reading assignments Reading Assignment Essential System Administration
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Programming Perl
Chapter Four
Chapter Thirty Two (review)

47. Upcoming deadlines Lab Assignment 6-1 is due February 27, 2011
Lab Assignment 7-1 (midterm) has to be completed by February 20, 2011.
Midterm exam will be administered from February 14 through 19, 2011.
Midterm outline is posted on the Bulletin Board.

48. Questions and answers Questions Comments Concerns
After class I will help students with their scripts.