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CIS 215 Introduction to UNIX

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1. To Unix on the Internet Course itself

Rules of the Class Suggested Schedule Class Outline of Topics Coordinated Reading per topic Assignment Guidelines Homework (where else?) Assignment 1 Homework (where else?) Assignment 2 Homework (where else?) Assignment 3 Midterm and Final Tests User ids and Passwords Getting Help Getting Mailing List Help Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Getting Practice using vi: vilearn Login Instructions

2. Operating System Functions Manage Peripherals Manage File System Manage CPU and Memory Schedule when programs run Manage Input and Output Manage Communications 3. UNIX Notes Week 1 Notes Week 2 Notes Week 3 Notes Week 4 Notes Week 5 Notes Regular Expressions Tables (Sarwar et al) Week 6 Notes Week 7 Notes Week 8 Notes 4. vi Notes vi editing modes diagram vi editing modes text table vi editing Survival Sheet vi: Line Positioning commands diagram vi: Line Positioning commands table vi: File Positioning Windows diagram vi: File Positioning Windows vi Problems Opening Files vi Problems Saving Files 5. UNIX Tutorials Tutorial #1 UNIX Commands: Logging in and out Tutorial #2 More UNIX Commands: cal, date, ls Tutorial #3 File Manipulation Unix Commands Tutorial #4 Other Directories: ls, cp Tutorial #5 Manipulating Directories: mkdir, cd, ls, cp, mv, rm Tutorial #6 Create File names (with ambiguous names: ?, *, [] ) Tutorial #7 Change Access Permissions Tutorial #8 Establishing links Tutorial #9 Basic Pipes and Filters Tutorial #10 Sorting lines based on field contents Tutorial #11 Other Filter Commands Tutorial #12 Using Grep Tutorial #13 Write and Execute Simple Shell Scripts Tutorial #14 awk: Basic Processing of data in files 6. Mail Tutorials Tutorial #1 mail: management in the system's mailbox Tutorial #2 mail: Creating mail messages Tutorial 3 write: Using real-time Communication 7. vi Tutorials Tutorial #1 vi Tutorial #2 vi navigation Tutorial #3 vi deleting and inserting Tutorial #4 vi inserting and changing Tutorial #5 vi searching and substituting Tutorial #6 vi copy and move text via buffers 8. McMullen Workbook Chapter 1 Questions (Your 1st Session) Chapter 2 Questions (The Command Line) Chapter 3 Questions (The Directory Hierarchy) Chapter 9 Questions (The vi Editor) 9. Other Resources

Home Page for Open SSH

PuTTY: A Free Win32 Telnet/SSH Client

Vi Improved -- Vim 3.6MB pdf file -- Thanks to Alex Molano

Vim Book Errata Web Site

Vim Web Site -- Thanks to Alex Molano 10. HTML Tutorials HTML Introduction HTML Tutorial And Reference

Questions? Robert Katz: rkatz@ned.highline.edu
Last Update November 29, 2005