| Week |
Objectives and Tasks |
Reference |
Assignment |
Week 1:
Jan 6-12 |
- Course introduction
- Obtaining your Seneca accounts
- *nix overview
- Open source philosophy
- Linux GUI and the terminal
- The Matrix server
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Week 1 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX
Tutorials:
Links to Windows SSH clients (Access Matrix from home):
YouTube Videos:
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Assignment 1:- Introduction to Unix Commands
- Basic Unix Commands (Parts 1 - 3)
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Week 2:
Jan 13-19 |
- Unix file system
- File types and file naming
- Basic file system commands:
(pwd,cd,tree,ls,mkdir,rmdir,mv,cp,rm, man) - Text editing
- Common file utilities:
(cat,more,less,touch,file,find)
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Week 2 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX
Tutorials:
Reference Sheets:
YouTube Videos:
- Linux File System, Basic Navigation:
(ls, cd, pwd, tree),Absolute and Relative Paths
- Basic File Actions
(touch, ls -l, cp, cp -r, mv, mkdir, mkdir -p, rm, rmdir, rm -r), Relative-to-home Paths
- Reading/Writing to Files:
(cat, more, less, man, date, diff, diff -y, find, wc)
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Assignment 1:- Basic Unix Commands (Parts 4 - 6)
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Week 3:
Jan 20-26 |
- Absolute and relative pathnames
- File name expansion
- Shell basics
- Command execution in detail
- Recalling and editing previous commands
- Quoting
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Week 3 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX
Tutorials:
YouTube Videos:
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Assignment 1:- Directory Management
- Practice Commands To Create A Directory Structure
- Create A Directory Structure
- Practice Specifying Path Names
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Week 4:
Jan 27-Feb 2 |
- Data Representation:
(Binary, octal, decimal,
and hexadecimal number systems) - Number conversions
- Unix file permissions
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Week 4 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX
Tutorials:
YouTube Videos:
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Assignment 2:- Practice Using The vi Text Editor
- Permissions
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Week 5:
Feb 3-9 |
- stdin, stdout, stderr
- Simple filter commands:
(head,tail,cut,sort,tr,wc) - grep utility
Redirection and piping
- /dev/null file
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Week 5 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX
Tutorials:
YouTube Videos:
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Assignment 2: |
Week 6:
Feb 10-16 |
- Sending email from command line
- scp and sftp utilities
- Basic Linux system administration
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Week 6 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX
Tutorials:
YouTube Videos:
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Week 7:
Feb 17-23 |
Evaluation:- Live Linux
- Linux Installation Considerations
- Linux Administration
- Midterm Test (30%)
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Week 7 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX
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Study Week:
Feb 24-Mar 1 |
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Week 8:
Mar 2-8 |
- Filesystem links
- Hard and symbolic links
- Process management
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Week 8 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX
Tutorials:
YouTube Videos:
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Assignment 2:- Linking Files And Directories
- Command Summary
- Linux Processes
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Week 9:
Mar 9-15 |
Regular expressions basics:- Literal matching
- Character classes
- . wildcard
- * repetition symbol
- Anchoring
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Week 9 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX
Tutorials:
YouTube Videos:
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Assignment 3:- Regular Expressions Using grep
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Week 10:
Mar 16-22 |
- Shell Configuration Files
- Introduction to Shell Scripting
Shell Variables- Positional Parameters
- echo and read commands
- if and test statements
- for loop
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Week 10 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX
Tutorials:
YouTube Videos:
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Assignment 3:- Interactive Shell Environment
- Introduction To Scripting (phone)
- More Scripting (add)
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Week 11:
Mar 23-29 |
- Extended Regular Expressions
- egrep vi sed awk
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Week 11 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX
Tutorials:
YouTube Videos:
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Assignment 3:
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Week 12:
Mar 30-Apr 5 |
Additional Scripting: |
Tutorials:
YouTube Videos:
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Assignment 3:- Yet More Scripting (oldfiles)
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Week 13:
Apr 6-12 |
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Exam Week:
Apr 13-17 |
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