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Linux and shell exercises

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Marco and polo

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Add shebang

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Basename extension

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Fibonacci series

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Version control

These exercises have been inspired by Julia Evans’s git exercises

To get started, clone the Scala programming language repository:

git clone https://github.com/scala/scala.git

Having cloned the repository, cd to it.

We will navigate this repository to get an idea how files have changed over time. You need to be familiar with some command line utilities such as wc -l, xargs, find, and pipe.

Type in the commands you would use in a shell for the following exercises. Warning: don’t push Enter until you are done with them all!

Automatic grader in this exercise sometimes has issues if your solution is complicated. If it would affect your grade, the course staff will manually check your solutions.

See what branch you are currently on (where HEAD points to).

The main line development is usually called master. This is only a naming convention and master is only a branch. As seen in this example, the “main” branch is not named master but after the latest stable version of Scala.

See what commit hash corresponds to HEAD.
Check out Martin Odersky’s (creator of Scala) first commit in 2003 with commit hash 4177daab2f54bdb20c71f623296a8bb32616fd12.
Now see how many lines of code Scala was at the time. Hint: Scala was originally written in java. For this exercise you should count the lines of all files with java extension (find, wc, and xargs are useful in this exercise). Remember to quote any arguments with wildcard symbols, otherwise your command breaks if there are any files matching the pattern in base directory.
Create a new branch named my-local-branch that points to this commit hash 4177daab2f54bdb20c71f623296a8bb32616fd12 Check out the branch and see how it differs from the 2.13.x branch (e.g. ls, git log).
Switch back to the main branch.
Take a look at the history of file src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/CompilerCommand.scala
Take a look at the commit 205f1c532d0a1b54a2b1874db4c4a553284911b6 to see the changes made to the file src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/CompilerCommand.scala.
Get a diff on the file src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/CompilerCommand.scala to see how it has changed since first created: Compare the one on the 2.13.x branch with the one at commit ac849228490d5a0e2d3f048d649297d5c59b6ade.
Find out how many files have been changed since the last commit Hint: Get diff between HEAD and the previous commit. There is an option to directly show the number of changes.
Find out how many commits have been made to the src/ directory. Hint: See the –oneline flag for git log.
Find out the commit hash that corresponds to tag v2.10.0. Hint: There is a direct command to show only the parse, but any solution where the parse is clearly visible is sufficient.
How many commits were made between tags v2.13.1 and v2.13.2? Hint: See how .. works and make use of –oneline flag and command line utility wc -l

SSH

SSH tunneling

Let’s imagine you would like to get full access to a paper that is not on an open access publication. You do not however have access to Aalto VPN. One workaround is to set up a tunnel from your computer to some computer inside Aalto network to encrypt and route all internet traffic to and from the computer residing in Aalto network, in this example Kosh.

You need to also set proper proxy settings on your OS/browser, that is go onto the proxy settings on your OS/browser, select protocol SOCKS, set proxy server address to 127.0.0.1 and specify a port.

Assuming you want to set the port to 12345, which of the commands below should be used for this port forwarding example?

Make

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