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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*