CSCI 3194 (UNIX Power Tools):
Readings

Lecture date	Topic	Readings
September 10	How to find out information (man, info, and apropos)	Section 2 of Introduction to Linux
	File and filesystem basics (file permissions, commands to manipulate files and directories)	Section 3 of Introduction to Linux
	Processes and job control	Section 4 of Introduction to Linux and section 7 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
September 24	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
	I/O redirection and pipes	Section 5 of Introduction to Linux
	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, tr, uniq, wc, xargs -- not reading all details, just skimming to get an idea of what the commands do
October 8	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
October 22	Text editors; vi and emacs	Online tutorials and help (as described in Homework 2)
October 29	Regular expressions	man and info pages for grep and sed, and/or Learning to Use Regular Expressions Chapter 5 in Thinking in Unix (skim the online references too) Chapter 32 in Unix Power Tools
November 5	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).
November 12	LaTeX	Chapters 1, 2, and 6 of The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. You can skip section 2.5.