the institute is plaining to computerize the tass related to its student management.i hv been asked to implement the new computerized system in the institute.need to use shell scripting to create student management software as the computers in the institute run on the linux operating systems.the following task-list has been
*create 4: files(1st sem,2st sem,3st sem,4st sem)to store the semester-wise record of all students
*whenever a new student joins e institute,open the respective semester file and record the following details about the student:
student id(generate automatically)
f-name
l-name
stream id(CS/IT/ET/EE/EI/ME/CE)
PHONE
CITY
STATE
ZIPCODE
*whenever student leaves the institute,delete th his/her record from the respective file
*whenever student detail is changed,make appropriate changes in the respective student file

Homework!!!

You will need to give us more detail.....and tell us what exactly is the question. e.g. do you need to know how to create the file, how to write date to the file, how to set up the fields, etc.

Also, where are you in the class---eg what commands/language are you expected to know?

the institute is plaining to computerize the task related to its student management.i hv been asked to to implement the new computerized system in the institute.need to use shell scripting to create student management software as the computers in the institute run on the linux operating systems.the following task-list has been
*create 4: files(1st sem,2st sem,3st sem,4st sem)to store the semester-wise record of all students
*whenever a new student joins e institute,open the respective semester file and record the following details about the student:
student id(generate automatically)
f-name
l-name
stream id(CS/IT/ET/EE/EI/ME/CE)
PHONE
CITY
STATE
ZIPCODE
*whenever student leaves the institute,delete th his/her record from the respective file
*whenever student detail is changed,make appropriate changes in the respective student file

Firstly I think it's conceptually flawed to delete the record
as soon as the student left (a retention period of a year or
so would still seem quite short).

Secondly, using flat files for this seems odd if the number
of students isn't very small. Have you thought about an OpenSource
RDBMS, like PostgreSQL?
It would pretty much naturally take care of the data integrity
and save you re-inventing the wheel...


Cheers,
Tink

Tink;
That is a very clever way of responding to a homework question.....I must try that on the next episode....

Well, my philosophy has always been not to give
people what they're asking for but what I think
they need ;} ... works in pretty much any situation.


Cheers,
Tink