The Unix System
Section 3

CSCI 330-3

Spring 2009

Last updated Thu. 4/30/2009 - tech. update Fri. 8/18/2023

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References

Course information

• Syllabus

Lab information

• How to FTP files from your H: drive. If you are using the command-line FTP, use the ascii command, then get filename. You can use put to send a file to your H: drive. Note: FTP changes the date on the file, so you cannot use FTP to make a backup copy after a program is due.
• How to get free anti-virus software from NIU for your home Windows machine. Get it and use it! In the lab, anti-virus checking should be automatic, but you can double-check your disk using the anti-virus program on the Start menu.
• Lab hours

Unix

• Setting up your turing account
• Important Unix commands
• Most common Emacs commands

Assignments

• Homework 1
• Homework 2
• Homework 3 (submission instructions added) and a test file testfile.txt
• Homework 4

Files

• File 1
• File 2

• Web site A
• Web site B

Class Notes

Note: Notes not yet covered in class may change before we get to them.

Introduction and files

• Introductory material
• The file system
• File operations
• Editors
• Emacs commands

Shell usage

• Aliases
• Redirection and piping

Regular expressions

• Regular expressions

More about the shell

• Shell history and directory stacks
• Shell command substitution and grouping
• Shell startup and variables

Shell programming and specific shells

• Introduction to shell programming
• More about the C shell (csh)
• C shell (csh) programming
• More about the bash shell
• Bash shell programming

Unix utilities

• Sed
• Awk

Shell job handling

• Shell job handling