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Schedule Subject To Change

• Week 1
• Lecture Slides
• Choose Editor Assignment Description
• Review Syllabus and Introduce Course
• The Editor War - vim or emacs?
• Remote Login: PuTTY and pscp
• isengard.mines.edu
• imagine.mines.edu


• Week 2
• Interacting with the Command Line:
• script/scriptreplay
• man
• apropos
• pwd
• ls
• cd
• less
• mkdir
• rmdir
• mv
• cp
• Start a CHEATSHEET.LNX File for Notes
• Understand the meaning of ~, ., and ..


• Week 3
• Command Line Options
• Aliases:
• alias
• unalias
• Alias bypassing
• The ~/.bashrc configuration file
• UNIX-style filesystems:
• touch
• rm
• find
• Filesharing:
• wget - example
• tar


• Week 4
• CHEATSHEET.LNX Submission Description - Due 2/12/18 11:59 PM
• Interrogating Files:
• wc
• file
• stat
• I/O Manipulation:
• Standard input, output, and error
• echo
• Redirection: <, >, >>, 2>, 2>>, and |
• /dev/null


• Week 5
• UnixHistory.sh Assignment Description - Due 2/23/18 11:59 PM
• Variables
• Environment vs shell/local variables
• export
• read
• Curly braces
• Quoting
• 'Single Quotes' vs "Double Quotes"
• bash Scripting
• Example: shell-dessert.sh
• -e and -x flags
• Wildcards and globbing
• *
• ?
• Bracket usage: [abc], [A-C], [!a], etc
• Brace expansion: {A..Z}, {A,B,C}, etc


• Week 6
• Control Signals: CTRL-C, CTRL-D, CTRL-L, CTRL-Z, CTRL-R
• Exit Status: $?
• Command line arguments for shell scripts
• $0, $1, $2, etc
• $# and $@
• Example: args.sh
• Loop Constructs: while-do-done
• Example: tlw.sh


• Week 7
• Quoth.sh Assignment Description (quotes.tar.gz) - Due 4/3/18 11:59 PM
• Process Control: top, ps, kill
• Conditional Constructs: test, false, true, if-then-fi
• Script exit status


• Week 8 - Midterm Exam
• All exams are in class on the specified dates:
• Section A - 3/12/18
• Section B - 3/7/18
• Section C - 3/9/18
• Review


• Week 9
• TitleCheck.sh Assignment Description - Due 4/9/18 11:59 PM
• Go over midterm
• Pattern-centric control structures: case-in-esac, for-do-done


• Week 10
• Common Pipeline Utilities: grep, head, tail, sort, uniq, tr, cut, tee
• Pipeline Exercises (pipeline_data.csv)
• Pipeline Exercise Answers


• Week 11
• LiteLifting.sh Assignment Description - Due 4/30/18 11:59 PM
• Regular Expressions (regex):
• *
• .
• Bracket usage: [abc], [A-C], [^a], etc
• Anchoring: ^ and $
• Stream Editing: sed


• Week 12
• Identity, Ownership, and Permissions
• chmod, chown, id, users, who, newgrp, sudo, chgrp, sg, su, umask


• Week 13
• Inodes and Linking
• ln, stat


• Final Exam Review
• Review Guide
• Practice Exam
• Solutions


• Final Exam - Saturday, May 5 at 3:15 PM
• Section A (Monday) - CT B60
• Section B (Wednesday) - MZ 022
• Section C (Friday) - BB 316A