I've been teaching my students the basics of the Unix OS (and Linux) for 4 weeks now. I want to give them a home assignment next. It's the first one so the questions and tasks won't be hard. My only actual goal is to make sure that everyone has access to their own Unix environment, either at school or at home or wherever. I also want to see if they've copied answers from each other. They like copying and sharing.
There will be a sheet for the students to fill in the answers. The first question will be "1. Name, student id". The second one will be something like:
"2. What is the output of the following commands?"
I've been thinking of commands like whoami, who, or maybe who|tail -1 to keep it short, and hostname but all of them have their weaknesses.
Some background: They do not have their own unix user account at school where they use the same username on different workstations. There's no interactive server either. Some students have a bootable flash drive with Linux on it. Some have a Macbook. What most students have is a friend or two who know how to use Unix.
So I'm asking for ideas for the second question. I want to see if the answers are genuine and that everyone's using Unix on their own.
uname -amight be a good command (uniq among all configuration). – Archemar Sep 15 '14 at 9:16whoami: the output the same if you're running Linux on your flash drive so I couldn't tell if it's a copy or a genuine result of entering the command.whoisn't very different, or evenhostname. – Miro Lehtonen Sep 15 '14 at 13:42