CSCI 3294 (Unix Power Tools):
Readings

Lecture date	Topic	Readings
January 24	How to find out information (man, info, and apropos)	Section 2 of Introduction to Linux Chapter 1 in Thinking in Unix Chapter 2 in Unix Power Tools
	File and filesystem basics (file permissions, commands to manipulate files and directories)	Section 3 of Introduction to Linux Chapter 2 in Thinking in Unix Chapters 1, 7, 8, 10, 14, 50 in Unix Power Tools
February 7	Processes and job control	Section 4 of Introduction to Linux and section 7 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual Chapters 2, 6 in Thinking in Unix Chapters 23, 24, 25 in Unix Power Tools
	Shell basics (control keys, command history, environment variables) and customizations (aliases and functions)	Sections 2 and 7.4 of Introduction to Linux, and/or sections 3, 6, and 8 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual Chapters 6, 7, 9 in Thinking in Unix Chapters 3, 4, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33 in Unix Power Tools
	I/O redirection and pipes	Section 5 of Introduction to Linux Chapter 3 in Thinking in Unix Chapter 43 in Unix Power Tools
February 21	Filter programs and other useful commands (find, diff, xargs, sed, awk)	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 (there's also a useful short summary here) Chapter 3 in Thinking in Unix (skim the online references too) Chapters 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, 20, 21, 22, 34 in Unix Power Tools
	Basics of shell scripting	Part 1 (chapters 1, 2), part 2 (chapters 3, 5, 7), part 3 (chapters 9, 10, 11, 14) of the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, and/or sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 6.8 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual Chapters 7, 8, 9 in Thinking in Unix Chapters 27, 28, 30, 31, 35 in Unix Power Tools
March 7	Text editors; vi and emacs	Online tutorials and help (as described in Homework 3) Chapter 5 in Thinking in Unix (and online tutorial for emacs) Chapters 17, 18, 19 in Unix Power Tools
March 21	Regular expressions	man and info pages for grep and sed, and/or Learning to Use Regular Expressions Chapter 5 in Thinking in Unix (skim the online references too) Chapter 32 in Unix Power Tools
March 28	LaTeX	Chapters 1, 2, and 6 of The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. You can skip section 2.5.
April 11	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).
April 18	Miscellaneous commands	man and/or info pages for commands in notes
	A little about X	Section 7.3 of Introduction to Linux Chapter 10 in Thinking in Unix Chapters 5,6 in Unix Power Tools