== Module 1: Using Linux Tools ==
== Module Objectives ==
After successfully completing this module a participant will be able to:

 * '''U ''' Understand the design philosophy of *nix

 * '''Ap''' 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

== 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]
||||||<tablewidth="80%"style="text-align: center;">'''Module Plan''' ||
||Topic ||Duration ||LAB work ||
||What is Linux? FOSS Philosophy? ||10 mts ||<style="text-align: vertical;"|6>1.Creating files:<<BR>>2.Explore meta characters <<BR>>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 ||<style="text-align: vertical;" |5>1.Data Analysis one liners <<BR>> 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 ||<style="text-align: vertical;" |5>1.Complex Data Analysis <<BR>> 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 ||