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	  | Introduction to Course          |  5 mts  |
|         |                                 |         |
|         | Historical background and       | 10 mts  |
|         | implications. Why Unix?         |         |
|         |                                 |         |
|         | Getting started–logging in; ls, | 10 mts  |  
|         | date, who, cd, mkdir            |         |
|         |                                 |         |
|         | Getting help: apropos, man, info| 10 mts  |
|         |                                 |         | 
|         | Basic file handling: cp, mv, rm | 10 mts  |
|         |                                 |         |
|         |First session buffer             |  5 mts  |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 2	  | Command line arguments          |  5 mts  |
|         |                                 |         |
|	  | Basic text processing: head,    | 15 mts  |
|	  | tail, cut, paste                |	      |
|         |                                 |         |
|         | Shell meta characters           |  10 mts |
|         |                                 |         |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 3	  | Learning the Lingo              | 5 mts   |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 4       | Let there be Repository...	    | 15 mts  |
|	  | 	- Creating Repositpry.	    |	      |     		
|	  | 	- Cloning existing Repo.    |	      |		
|	  |	- Branches concept 	    |         |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 5	  | Navigating through history logs | 5 mts   |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 6	  | Making changes in local branch  | 15 mts  |
|	  |	- add	    		    |	      |
|	  |	- cp			    |	      |
|	  |	- rename		    |	      |  	
|	  |	- rm			    |	      |	
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 7	  | Sharing the changes		    | 10 mts  |
|	  | 	- status		    |	      |
|	  |	- pull			    |	      |
|	  |	- update		    |	      |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 8	  | Merging the changes		    | 20 mts  |
|	  | 	- commit		    |	      |
|	  |	- glog			    |	      |
|	  |	- push			    |	      |
|	  |	- merge			    |	      |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 9	  | Handling conflicts during merge | 20 mts  |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 10	  | Exporting the changes: getting  |	      |
|	  | patch, diff   	   	    | 10 mts  |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+

*total session time = 110 mts*

*buffer time = 10 mts*