Module 1: Using Linux Tools
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Module Objectives
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After successfully completing this module a participant will be able to:

* Understand the design philosophy of \*nix          	   	{U}
* Use Linux as their day-to-day operating system       		{Ap}
* Use the text processing tools such as 'grep', 'tr'   		{Ap}
* Write and execute (bash) shell scripts               		{Ap}

.. * Use a text editor comfortably	                       		{Ap}

Suggested Reading
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(1) "In the beginning..." by Neal Stephenson
(2) "The Unix Programming Environment" by Kerninghan and Pike

**Initial Session Plan**

+---------+----------------------------------------------+----------+
| Session | Topic                                        | Duration |
+---------+----------------------------------------------+----------+
|       1 | What is Linux? FOSS Philosophy               | 5 min    |
|         |                                              |          |
|         | Getting Started                              | 15 min   |
|         | - login                                      |          |
|         | - pwd                                        |          |
|         | - ls                                         |          |
|         | - mkdir                                      |          |
|         | - cd                                         |          |
|         | - touch                                      |          |
|         |                                              |          |
|         | Getting help                                 | 10 min   |
|         | - man                                        |          |
|         | - command line flags                         |          |
|         | - apropos                                    |          |
|         |                                              |          |
|         | Basic File Handling                          | 10 min   |
|         | - cp                                         |          |
|         | - mv                                         |          |
|         | - rm                                         |          |
|         |                                              |          |
|         | Linux File Hierarchy, permissions, ownership | 10 min   |
|         | - hier                                       |          |
|         | - ls -l                                      |          |
|         | - chmod                                      |          |
|         | - chown                                      |          |
|         |                                              |          |
+---------+----------------------------------------------+----------+
|       2 | Looking at files                             | 15 min   |
|         | - cat                                        |          |
|         | - wc                                         |          |
|         | - less                                       |          |
|         | - head                                       |          |
|         | - tail                                       |          |
|         | - cut                                        |          |
|         | - paste                                      |          |
|         |                                              |          |
|         | Role of Command Shell                        | 20 min   |
|         | - redirection and piping                     |          |
|         | - stdin, stdout, stderr                      |          |
|         | - tab-completion                             |          |
|         | - history                                    |          |
|         | - meta characters                            |          |
|         |                                              |          |
|         | Text Processing                              | 15 min   |
|         | - sort                                       |          |
|         | - grep                                       |          |
|         | - tr                                         |          |
|         | - uniq                                       |          |
|         |                                              |          |
+---------+----------------------------------------------+----------+
|       3 | Writing Simple Shell scripts                 | 10 min   |
|         | - echo                                       |          |
|         | - command line parameters                    |          |
|         | - PATH                                       |          |
|         | - chmod and execute permission               |          |
|         |                                              |          |
|         | Control structures and operators             | 25 min   |
|         | - test, [ ]                                  |          |
|         | - if, if-else                                |          |
|         | - for                                        |          |
|         | - while                                      |          |
|         | - Environment variables                      |          |
|         |                                              |          |
|         | Miscellaneous Tools                          | 15 min   |
|         | - tar                                        |          |
|         | - cmp, diff                                  |          |
|         | - find                                       |          |
|         | - customizing your shell                     |          |
+---------+----------------------------------------------+----------+