BCS 215: UNIX Operating Systems CRN 61998…

BCS 215: UNIX Operating Systems CRN 61998 Summer 2018 —————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Homework Assignment 2 Due Monday, June 11, 2018, 11:59PM on Blackboard —————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Assignment Goals: To learn to use UNIX/Linux utilities and commands to process data in text files. Tasks: 1. In your home directory, make a directory called hw2 and change to the hw2 directory. 2. Use the vi editor to create a file named students which contains the following text (The fields of the record are student ID, student last name, first name, and course ID): S001:Jones:Nancy:C410 S004:Mitchell:Barbara:C206 S003:Lieberman:Timothy:C304 S005:Moore:Sarah:C203 S002:Polk:Christian:C101 S006:Jacobs:Paula:C203 S005:Moore:Sarah:C304 3. Use the vi editor to create a file named instructors which contains the following text (The fields are the instructor’s last name, first name, course ID, and course name): Brown:Alice:C203:Java Programming Calvin:David:C101:Introduction to Computers Capra:John:C304:Algorithms Drew:Justin:C301:Data Structures Miller:Richard:C206:Computer Networks Sanders:Selina:C410:Computer Architecture 4. Write commands to combine the above two files and generate a file student_instructor that contains student’s ID, last name, first name, course ID, course name, instructor’s last name and first name. Hints: Identify the common field of the two files. Sort each file on the common field and save the result to a new file. Use the join command to combine the two sorted files. 5. Output the contents of the student_instructor file on the screen. Hints: Use the echo command to output a prompt or an empty line. 6. Sort the file student_instructor…