UNB/ CS/ David Bremner/ teaching/ cs4735/ lab guide

How to read this document

$ represents your prompt, and should not be typed in.

Login and Shell

You have two ways to login to one of the lab machines: In ITD415 (or GC112) simply login to one of the workstations From another location, use secure shell (ssh - use putty if you're logging in from a Windows machine):

In this course we'll often need to work from the command line, that is we'll use the bash shell directly via a terminal window. To open a terminal window, click on the terminal icon in the "Applications" menu.

Running Programs on the command line

To execute hello, type:

$ ./hello

The "./" is essential.

To execute hello taking input from file foo,

$ ./hello < foo

To execute hello taking input from file foo, and writing output to bar

$ ./hello < foo > bar

running javascript from the command line

If hello.js is your (text only) javascript program, you can run it in the lab machines with

$ rhino hello.js

There are small non-obvious differences between rhino and the browser.

Make a record of your session

$ script

run your commands

$ exit

You commands (and their output) is saved in a file typescript

This is likely to be somewhat ugly to look at because of escape codes. Just hand in the raw version.