Installation of GNU/Linux and Design Consideration of Bash Script

computer systems and networks

Table of Contents
Introduction...............................................................................................................................................2
How to install the GNU/Linux..................................................................................................................2
Design consideration of bash script..........................................................................................................3
Test results.................................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion................................................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................................11
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Introduction
In this project, the installation of GNU/Linux will be described. And the usage of bash
script will also be described. The detailed discussion will be made regarding the Linux base
system and shell script. Next, the Linux commands will be described clearly regarding the
creation and usage of bash script in the Linux system. And the justification will be provided for
each process. Next, the test results will be delivered with the screenshots. The script file and log
files will be created. Then the advantages and disadvantages of shell script will be explained.
Here the bash script could be used to display the activities and usage of the system. This bash
script automatically will create the log file to monitor the system activities. Also, this log file will
deliver the details regarding the overall disk usage, plugged devices, user home directories, and
network interfaces (Nieh and Vaill, 2005).
How to install the GNU/Linux
Generally, the Linux is kind of operating system. Mostly for the graphical user interface,
Ubuntu version is considered as the best choice. It is an open source platform. Also had some
security measures. Here the installation of Linux will be described. The operating system could
also be installed through the VMware. The basic procedures are added below to make the
installation process (Apte and Rungta, 2007) (Serral and Gil, 2004).
 First, enter into the windows and click the start button
 Then click the control panel -> Disk management. This page will lead the disk
management and partitioning.
 Next, the volume needs to be selected and make shrink to provide the storage level to the
chosen operating system.
 After that, the corresponding operating system file needs to boot for the installation. So it
will take a time.
 Next, the system should be restarted for installing the additional operating system. While
restarting the boot menu options need to be clicked.
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 Next, select the Linux based operating system such as Ubuntu and click install
(Introducing Ubuntu: desktop Linux, 2008).
 Then choose the language and other features regarding the OS installation (The GNU
Make Book, 2015).
 Make the partition regarding the usage in the Linux system
 Click the continue button for proceeding the installation (LITAYEM, BEN and BEN,
2011).
 Finally, the Linux system will be obtained by the user (Koren, 2006).
Bash shell script
The bash shell is represented as Bourne again shell. Mainly it is distributed with the
Linux operating systems. Also, this bash script is represented as a plain text. And the plain text
includes a series of commands. The bash script is considered an easy way to make the execution
instead of working with the command line (Chapelle, 2013). The extension of bash script is ‘.sh’.
This bash script also used to system administration and remote access. This script usually read
the commands by the log file. In this project, the bash script will be created to find the usage of
disk and processes. Also, the network services and logged users will be identified by the script
file execution (Davoli, 2004).
Design consideration of bash script
This section includes the creation of usage of shell script. And the commands will be
described. Also, the justification will be provided for using the bash script. The shell script is
represented as a computer program. It is used to scripting the sequence of commands regarding
the process. Also, these script files could be stored at any time. The creation of bash script is
described below (Haryanto and Ginting, 2016).
Constructing the shell script
The step by step procedures are listed here to make the shell script. They are,
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