CSCI 3215 (Advanced UNIX Command-Line Tools):
Readings

Lecture date	Topic	Readings
August 29	How to find out information (man, info, and apropos)	Section 2 of Introduction to Linux
August 31	File and filesystem basics (file permissions, commands to manipulate files and directories)	Section 3 of Introduction to Linux
	Processes and job control	Section 4.1 of Section 7 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
September 14	Shell basics (control keys, command history, environment variables, what the shell does with what you type)	Sections 3.1, 3.7, 6, and 8 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
September 19	Shell customizations	Section C of Introduction to Linux and sections 3.3, 4, 5, and 6 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
	I/O redirection	Sections 5.1 and 5.2 of Introduction to Linux and sections 3.6 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
	Pipes	Section 3.2.2 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
September 21	Filter programs and other useful commands (find, diff, xargs, sed, awk)	Section 5.3 of Introduction to Linux and man pages for awk, cat, cut, diff, echo, expand, find, fmt, grep, head, less, more, paste, sed, sort, tail, tr, uniq, wc, xargs -- not reading all details, just skimming to get an idea of what the commands do
October 3	Basics of shell scripting	Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 of the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, and/or sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 4.1 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
October 24	make	The following chapters from the GNU Make Manual: 1 (introduction and 1.1); 2; 3 (introduction, 3.1, and 3.2); 4 (introduction, 4.1, and 4.2); 5 (introduction, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.4); 6 (introduction, 6.1, 6.4, and 6.5); 9 (introduction, 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3); 10 (introduction, 10.1, 10.2 (skim), 10.3 (skim), 10.5 (introduction only), and 10.7).
October 26	Text editors; vi and emacs	Online tutorials and help (as described in homework)
October 31	Regular expressions	man and info pages for grep and sed, and/or Learning to Use Regular Expressions
November 2	gnuplot	gnuplot tutorial.
November 7	LaTeX	Chapters 1, 2, and 6 of The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. You can skip section 2.5.