CSCI 3294 (Unix Power Tools):
Readings

Lecture date	Topic	Readings
January 18	How to find out information (man, info, and apropos)	Section 2 of Introduction to Linux Chapter 2 in Unix Power Tools
January 23	File and filesystem basics (file permissions, commands to manipulate files and directories)	Section 3 of Introduction to Linux Chapters 1, 7, 8, 10, 14, 50 in Unix Power Tools
	Processes and job control	Section 4 of Introduction to Linux and section 7 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual Chapters 23, 24, 25 in Unix Power Tools
January 25	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 3, 4, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33 in Unix Power Tools
	I/O redirection and pipes	Section 5 of Introduction to Linux Chapter 43 in Unix Power Tools
January 30	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, tee, 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) Chapters 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, 20, 21, 22, 34 in Unix Power Tools
February 6	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 27, 28, 30, 31, 35 in Unix Power Tools
February 20	Text editors; vi and emacs	Online tutorials and help (as described in Homework 4) Chapters 17, 18, 19 in Unix Power Tools
February 22	Regular expressions	man and info pages for grep and sed, and/or Learning to Use Regular Expressions Chapter 32 in Unix Power Tools
March 1	LaTeX	Chapters 1, 2, and 6 of The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. You can skip section 2.5.
March 6	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).