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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]

||What is Linux? FOSS Philosophy? ||10 mts||<rowspan=7> 1. Use touch command to create the files: p.txt p1.txt p2.txt, p3.txt, pa.txt, pb.txt qq.txt, qc.txt 2. Issue the commands ls p*, ls p?, ls p[0-9].txt ls [pq][a-z].txt 3. Read the man pages for shell metacharacters and figure out what ?, * and [] do.||