Description

This course introduces the Unix system commands used for data or text manipulation and teaches how to string these commands together producing powerful utilities. Multiple exercises reinforce the concepts.

Audience

Technical Unix users who need broad familiarity with the resources available in the Unix system.

Prerequisite

Unix Basics or equivalent experience.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• find files and patterns in files using grep, fgrep, egrep, and look
• work with columns and fields using cut, colrm, paste, and join
• sort files internally by field or column
• compare files using cmp, comm., diff, and understand the use of patch
• change information in files with tr, sed, and tac
• use tools to perform math functions and display non-printing characters, the date, and calendar
• work with compressed files using zcat, zgrep, and zdiff