Module 1: Using Linux Tools

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Module Objectives

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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

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(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*