Laboratory: Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:30 -- 9:30 pm, ACC lab (L2610 in the Computer Center).
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In addition to the assigned readings in Linux in a Nutshell, it is helpful to look up the Nutshell entries for all the new commands and facilities we discuss each session.
| WEEK | DATES | ACTIVITY |
| WEEK 1 | Jan. 9 |
Introduction to Linux,
Emacs, and
HTML Files and directories, tree-structured file system Teach Yourself: Introduction, Lessons 1 (Login), 3 (KDE, pps. 32-35) 4 (File System), 6 (Working with Files), 7 (Reading files), 8 (Text editing, especially emacs, pps. 82-84), 15 (Changing your password, pps. 138 - 139) Nutshell: 10 (Emacs, especially Absolutely Essential Commands, p. 560) |
| Jan. 11 |
Shells and commands: switches, arguments, globbing and quoting; find Teach Yourself: Chapter 5 (Finding Files, pps. 51 - 54) Nutshell: Chapter 6 (Shells, pps. 446-448) Nutshell: Chapter 7 (Metacharacters, p. 454, Quoting, p. 459-460) |
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| WEEK 2 | Jan. 16 |
Aliases, paths, environment variables, scripts, and links What happens when you log in, when you type a command Teach Yourself: 6 (Links, 68-69), 16 (Modifying the environment) Nutshell: 7 (Special files, p. 454, Built-in Shell variables, 465--468) Linux and Emacs over Telnet Teach Yourself: Lesson 18 (Network, p 160) Nutshell: 10 (Emacs, typical problems, p. 558 - 559) |
| Jan. 18 | Security: users, groups, ownership, and protection Teach Yourself: 19 (Permissions) Nutshell: 3 (chmod, chgrp, chown 61 -- 64) |
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| WEEK 3 | Jan. 23 |
Input, output, redirection, and pipes; sort Teach Yourself: 12 (Input and Output), 9 (Sort, pps. 89-90) Nutshell: 7 (Command Forms, p. 460, Redirection Forms, p. 461-462) First lab assignment (simple web page) due (delayed to allow for account problems) |
| Jan. 25 |
Regular expressions, grep and sed Teach yourself: 5 (grep, p. 56) 13 (Regular expressions) Nutshell: 9 (Pattern matching), 12 (sed, especially 607-609) Awk: 2.1 (Regular expressions, 28 - 31) |
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| WEEK 4 | Jan. 30 |
Unix security Program-generated web page assignment due |
| Feb. 1 |
Shell scripts Teach Yourself: 14 (Basic shell scripting -- but this book uses csh!?) Nutshell: 7 (Variables 462-465, for 480, if 482, test 490-493, while 497-498) |
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| WEEK 5 | Feb 6 |
Processes and scheduling Teach Yourself: 11 (Processes) Nutshell: at (35-36), crontab (75-76) |
| Feb. 8 | Unix review | |
| WEEK 6 | Feb. 13 |
Unix quiz Unix shell script assignment due Pattern matching languages (grep and sed again) Teach yourself: 5 (grep, p. 56) 13 (Regular expressions) Nutshell: 9 (Pattern matching), 12 (sed, especially 607-609) Awk: 2.1 (Regular expressions, 28 - 31) |
| Feb. 15 |
Introdution to Awk Awk Preface, 1 (Tutorial, 1 - 19) Nutshell 13 (gawk, especially 619 - 626) |
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| WEEK 7 | Feb. 20 |
Awk 2.1 (Patterns, 21 - 33) |
| Feb. 22 |
Awk 2.2 (Actions: expressions, 34 - 37) |
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| WEEK 8 | Feb. 27 |
Awk 2.2 (Actions: control flow, 47 - 50) |
| Mar. 1 |
Awk 2.2 (Actions: arrays, 50 - 53) |
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| WEEK 9 | Mar. 6 |
Lecture: Awk formatted output Awk 2.4, pps 54 - 59 (output) |
| Mar. 8 |
Lecture: Awk logical operators and control structure Awk 2.2, pps 36 - 38 (comparison and logical operators) 46 (table 2.8) Awk 1.6, pps 14 - 16, Awk 2.2 pps 47 - 50 (control-flow statements) Lecture: Awk arrays, indexing, loops Awk 1.7, pps 16 - 17, Awk 2.2 pps. 50 - 53, Awk 5.3 p. 119 |
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| WEEK 10 | Mar. 13 |
Lecture: Awk functions Awk 2.3 pps 53 - 54, Awk 5.1 pps 111 - 113 |
| Mar. 15 | Lecture: Unix and Awk review | |
| EVALS. | Mar. 20 | Evaluations |
| Mar. 22 | Evaluations |