: To match compatibility of scripting elements for current OPS235 labs. Emphasis will be placed on practicality, creativity, and listing scripting items that can be used to match and compare towards existing scripting course OPS435 to provide information for CNS / CTY curriculum discussions. This particular WIKI will concentrate on long-term "fits" (i.e. major structural changes to course from existing learning outcomes, topics and core skills on OPS335 and OPS435 courses as well as other courses in the OPS Stream).

::'''Scripting for Lab1'''. Lab 1 could be modified to have students generate a report regarding the collection of Linux information after an install. Certainly '''command substitution''' could be taught and to reinforce '''redirection''' >> to add content to a filename (i.e. not over-ride). It would be interesting to expose students to the '''zenity''' command to allow a menu to give user choice of report elements to include in the generated report. Perhaps a link to a "fancy" Bash shell script to generate a web-page so students can view the contents in a nice format. This scripting element could easily be added to assignment #1.<br><br>It is recommended to add to lab1 a simple '''step-by-step procedure to generate a simple text-based report in a shell script''' (eg. '''text-report.bash'''), but also have students use '''wget''' command to download, set execute permissions and run more sophisticated shell scripts (eg. '''report.bash''' and '''report2.bash''')

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