CSCI 3294 (UNIX Power Tools):
Readings

Lecture date	Topic	Readings
August 27	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 4.1 of Introduction to Linux and section 7 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
August 29	Shell basics (control keys, command history, environment variables, what the shell does with what you type)	Sections 2 of Introduction to Linux, and/or sections 3.1, 3.7, 6, and 8 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
September 5	Shell customizations	Section C of Introduction to Linux and sections 3.3, 4, 5, and 6 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
	I/O redirection	Sections 5.1 and 5.2 of Introduction to Linux and sections 3.6 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
	Pipes	Section 3.2.2 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
September 10	Filter programs and other useful commands (find, diff, xargs, sed, awk)	Section 5.3 of Introduction to Linux and 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
September 12	Basics of shell scripting	Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 of the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, and/or sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 4.1 of the GNU Bash Reference Manual
September 24	Text editors; vi and emacs	Online tutorials and help (as described in Homework 2)
September 26	Regular expressions	man and info pages for grep and sed, and/or Learning to Use Regular Expressions
October 3	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).
October 10	gnuplot	gnuplot tutorial.
October 15	LaTeX	Chapters 1, 2, and 6 of The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. You can skip section 2.5.
October 31	Mail in UNIX	Section 3 of this well-aged HOWTO on mail.