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+Module 1: Using Linux Tools
+============================
+
+Module Objectives
+----------------------
+
+After successfully completing this module a participant will be able to:
+
+* Understand the design philosophy of \*nix {U}
+* Use Linux as their day-to-day operating system {Ap}
+* Use the text processing tools such as 'grep', 'tr' {Ap}
+* Write and execute (bash) shell scripts {Ap}
+* Use a text editor comfortably {Ap}
+
+Suggested Reading
+-----------------------
+
+(1) "In the beginning..." by Neal Stephenson
+(2) "The Unix Programming Environment" by Kerninghan and Pike
+
+**Initial Session Plan**
+
++---------+---------------------------------+---------+
+| Session | Topic | Duration|
++=========+=================================+=========+
+| 1 | Introduction to the Course | 5 mt |
+| | | |
+| | Historical background and | 10 mts |
+| | implications. Why Unix? | |
+| | | |
+| | Getting started–logging in; *ls,| 10 mts |
+| | date, who, cd, mkdir* | |
+| | | |
+| | Getting help: *apropos, man, | 10 mts |
+| | info* | |
+| | | |
+| | Basic file handling: *cp, mv, | 10 mts |
+| | rm* | |
+| | | |
+| | First session buffer | 5 mts |
++---------+---------------------------------+---------+
+| 2 | Command line arguments | 5 mts |
+| | | |
+| | Basic text processing: *head, | 15 mts |
+| | tail, cut, paste* | |
+| | | |
+| | Shell meta characters | 10 mts |
+| | | |
+| | Looking at files: *cat, less* | 5 mts |
+| | | |
+| | Directory structure: *man hier, | 5 mts |
+| | ls -l* | |
+| | | |
+| | Permissions and ownership, | 10 mts |
+| | *chmod, chown* | |
++---------+---------------------------------+---------+
+| 3 | Redirection and Piping | 10 mts |
+| | | |
+| | More text processing:*grep, tr* | 10 mts |
+| | | |
+| | Elementary regex: . ? * ^ $ [ ] | 15 mts |
+| | | |
+| | One liners: show lines n to m, | 15 mts |
+| | show directories | |
++---------+---------------------------------+---------+
+| 4 | More text processing: *join, | 10 mts |
+| | sprt, uniq* | |
+| | | |
+| | Generating a word frequency list| 10 mts |
+| | | |
+| | Basic editing and editors : vim,| 10 mts |
+| | scite | |
+| | | |
+| | Personalising your environment: | 10 mts |
+| | *.bashrc, .vimrc* | |
+| | | |
+| | Subshells and *source~* | 10 mts |
++---------+---------------------------------+---------+
+| 5 | More tools: *tar, zip, diff, | 25 mts |
+| | cmp, comm* | |
+| | | |
+| | Environment variables, *set* | 10 mts |
+| | | |
+| | Writing simple shell scripts | 15 mts |
++---------+---------------------------------+---------+
+| 6 | Control structures and | 20 mts |
+| | operators in bash | |
+| | | |
+| | Writing shell scripts | 30 mts |
++---------+---------------------------------+---------+
+| 7 | Functions in bash scripts | 20 mts |
+| | | |
+| | Assessment Test | 30 mts |
++---------+---------------------------------+---------+
+
+*total session time = 350 mts*
+
+*buffer time = 10 mts*