Schedule

Syllabus

Learning Goals

Welcome to Intro to Linux!

Here is the tentative schedule of topics covered during this course, which is subject to be changed and updated as we go along.

Week 1

• Review Syllabus and Introduce Course
• Lecture Slides
• The Editor War vim or emacs?
• Choose Editor Assignment - Due August 30th by 11:59 PM
• Remote Login: PuTTY and pscp

Week 2

• Interacting with the Command Line
  • script
  • man
  • apropos
  • pwd
  • ls
  • cd
  • less
  • mkdir
  • rmdir
  • mv
  • cp
• Start a CHEATSHEET.LNX file for notes
• Understand the meaning of ~,., and ..

Week 3

• Aliases
  • alias
  • unalias
  • Alias bypassing
• The ~/. bashrc configuration file
• Interogatting Files:
  • touch
  • rm
  • find
  • wc
  • file
  • stat
  • df
• Filesharing
  • wget
  • tar
  • Example tarball: example.tar.bz

Week 4

• CHEATSHEET.LNX Submission Description - Due September 27 by 11:59PM
• I/O Manipulation
  • echo
  • Standard input (STDIN), output (STDOUT), and error (STDERR)
  • Redirection <, >, », 2>, 2»
  • Pipeline |
  • /dev/null
• Variables
  • Environment vs local/shell variables
  • export
  • read

Week 5

• UnixHistory.sh Assignment Description - Due October 4th by 11:59PM
• Wildcards and globbing
  • *
  • ?
  • Bracket Usage: [abc], [A-C], [!a], etc
  • Brace Expansion: {A..Z}, {A,B,C}, etc
• Quoting
  • ‘Single Quotes’ vs. “Double Quotes”
• bash Scripting
  • Example: shell-dessert.sh
  • -e and -x flags

Week 6

• Control Signals
  • CTRL-C
  • CTRL-D
  • CTRL-Z
• Exit Status: $?
• Command Line Arguments for shell scripts
  • $0, $1, $2…
  • $# and $@
  • Example: args.sh
• Loop Constructs: while-do-done
  • Example: tlw.sh
• Midterm Review

Midterm October 10th 7:30 - 9:00 PM

Room Assignments

• Section A (Monday): MZ 026
• Section B (Wednesday): MZ 022
• Section C (Friday, Last Name A-M): BB 316A
• Section C (Friday, Last Name N-Z): BB 316B

Week 7

• Quoth.sh Assignment Description (quotes.tar.gz) - Due October 25th by 11:59PM
• Process Control
  • top
  • ps
  • nice
  • jobs
  • fg
  • kill
• Conditional Constructs
  • test
  • true
  • false
  • if-then-else
  • Example: decisions.sh
• Script exit status

Week 8

• TitleCheck.sh Assignment Description - Due November 8th by 11:59PM
• Go over midterm
• Pattern-centric Control Structures
  • case-in-esac
  • for-do-done

Week 9

• Common Pipeline Utilities
  • grep
  • head
  • tail
  • sort
  • tee
  • tr
  • cut
• Pipeline Exercises (pipeline_data.csv)
• Pipeline Exercises Answers

Week 10

• LiteLifting.sh Assignment Description - Due November 22nd by 11:59PM
• Stream Editing
  • sed
• Regular Expressions (regex)
  • .
  • *
  • Bracket usage: [abc], [A-C], [^a], etc.
  • Anchoring: ^ and $
  • Extended Regular Expressions: ?, +, (), |, {n}
  • Example: regex.tar.bz

Week 11

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

Week 12

• CHEATSHEET.LNX Final Submission Description Due December 5th by 11:59PM
• Inodes and Linking
  • ln
  • stat

Final Exam Review

• Review Guide
• Practice Exam
• Practice Exam Solutions

Final Exam December 6th 7:00-9:00PM

Room Assignments

• Section A (Monday): MZ 026
• Section B (Wednesday): MZ 022
• Section C (Friday, Last Name A-M): BB 316A
• Section C (Friday, Last Name N-Z): BB 316B