Module 1: Using Linux Tools

Module Objectives

After successfully completing this module a participant will be able to:

Suggested Reading

"In the beginning there was the command line" by Neal Stephenson [http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html]

"The Unix Programming Environment" by Kerninghan and Pike

"Introduction? Foss Philosophy?" [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide/Introduction http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide/Introduction]

"Linux Commands" [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide/Linux_commands]

"grep and regex" [http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/regexpr.html http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/regexpr.html]

"Text Processing and shell scripting" [http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/textproc.html#WF http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/textproc.html#WF](Has some good problems for Lab Notebook)

"Shell scripting and Text Processing Problems" [http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/textproc.html#WF]

Module Plan

Topic

Duration

LAB work

What is Linux? FOSS Philosophy?

10 mts

1.Creating files:
2.Explore meta characters
3. Read Man pages and fire commads with flags

First steps: pwd, ls, mkdir

10 mts

Getting help: apropos, man, info

10 mts

Basic File Handling: cp, mv, rm

10 mts

Linux File Heirarchy, man hier

05 mts

Permissions and ownership, chmod, chown

05 mts

Looking at files: cat, less

05 mts

1.Data Analysis one liners
Given Census data find distribution of occupants per household

Basic text processing: head, tail, cut, paste

15 mts

Redirection and Piping

10 mts

More text processing: grep, tr, sort, uniq

15 mts

Writing one-liner pipes

05 mts

Writing simple shell scripts

10 mts

1.Complex Data Analysis
Finding From lines of all the mails

Command line parameters

05 mts

Control structures and operators in bash

20 mts

Environment variables: set

05 mts

Misc tools: tar, zip, cmp, diff, comm

10 mts

ult_module_plan (last edited 2010-06-21 22:06:22 by 203)