Prerequisites

CIT 35600

Offered

Spring

Software

Provided

Credit By Exam

No

Coordinator

C. Justice

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Review of UNIX history and basics

• Learn about the evolution and history of Unix and Linux
• Review operating system concepts
• Understand the components of Unix
• Examine basic Unix commands

Vi editor

• Understand file concepts
• Learn about text editing in Unix
• Create script files
• Copy and replace text
• Merge files
• Use vi to search for patterns

File systems and permissions

• Learn about different file systems
• Examine different file types in Unix
• Understand blocks and inodes
• Create symbolic and hard links
• Understand security principles
• Set up groups and file permissions

Shell basics

• Learn about the shell environment
• Examine the different Unix shells
• Learn about redirection of standard input and output
• Understand command substitution
• Examine job control and processes
• Learn about the use of shell variables

Filters and pipes

• Understand the concepts of filters and pipes
• Use filters with pipes
• Examine various filter commands
• Learn when to use filters and pipes

Regular expressions

• Understand the concept of regular expressions
• Examine the different regular expression operators
• Learn how to perform pattern matching
• Understand where regular expressions can be used

Grep

• Learn about grep and its related commands
• Understand how to search files using the grep command
• Search a specific directory for files
• Use grep to search all directories for a particular file

Sed

• Understand sed and its uses
• Learn about addresses in sed
• Examine different sed commands
• Create sed scripts
• Evaluate the difference between grep and sed

Awk

• Learn about the awk utility and its uses
• Understand awk components
• Create awk scripts
• Use awk statements and functions
• Evaluate the differences between grep, sed, and awk

Shell features

• Understand streams
• Learn about different types of shell variables
• Set up shell variables
• Customize the shell environment
• Examine the command execution process

Basic shell scripting

• Understand script concepts
• Create shell scripts
• Learn about different expression types
• Use arguments and parameters in scripts
• Examine if statements and looping constructs
• Debug shell scripts

Advanced shell scripting

• Learn advanced scripting techniques
• Understand variable substitution
• Define functions in shell scripts
• Use arrays in shell scripts
• Understand signals
• Be able to open and close files
• Evaluate user interaction and scripting

Perl programming

• Understand the basics of the Perl language
• Identify and use data types in Perl
• Understand differences between the awk program and Perl
• Access disk files in Perl
• Use Perl to sort information
• Understand how to determine file status using Perl
• Understand how Perl and CGI are used for creating dynamic Web pages

Windows shell scripting

• Learn about shell scripting in Windows
• Compare shell scripting in Unix to other operating systems
• Understand the basics of Powershell
• Create shell scripts in Windows
• Execute and debug Powershell scripts