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System-Commands-course

Notes from the System Commands course

• Week 1

• Week 2

• Week 3

• Week 4

• Week 5

Reference Books:

• The Command Line - a complete introduction, by William Shotts. (ISBN: 9781593279523)

• Classic Shell Scripting, by Arnold Robbins & Nelson H.F. Beebe. (ISBN 9788173668463)

Reference material:

• GNU Bash manual.

• Effective AWK Programming. (GNU AWK Manual)

• GNU Sed: a stream editor. (GNU Sed Manual)

• Git User Manual.

• MM2090 Introduction to Scientific Computing

Instructors:

Professor details:

• Prof. Gandham Phanikumar,

  • Professor, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras

Course Instructors:

• Ankur Parmar(M.Tech(CSE), IIT Bombay)

• Santhana Krishnan(M.tech., Anna University)

• Hariharan V S(Ph.d. (ongoing) , IIT Madras)

• Shreya Smitha ( B.tech, (ongoing), IIT Madras)

• Archish S (B.tech (ongoing), IIT Madras)

Contents:

• Week 1 Notes
  • Terminal Emulators
  • Command Prompt
  • Commands and Flags
  • File types
  • Viewing and Adding to files
  • Hard links and Soft links
  • Permissions
  • Linux Virtual Machine
    • ISO
    • Hypervisor
  • Command Line Environments
  • File System of Linux OS
• Week 2 Notes
  • Commands
  • Commands to know contents of a text file
  • Knowing more commands
  • Multiple Arguments
    • Recap : Arguments and Options
  • Links (Hard Links and Soft Links)
  • File Sizes
  • In-Memory File Systems
  • Shell Variables
  • Linux Process Management
  • REPLIT CODE WITH US
• Week 3 Notes
  • Combining Commands and Files
  • Redirections
  • Shell Variables - Part 1
• Week 4 Notes
  • Software Management
  • Pattern Matching
  • Special characters (BRE & ERE)
  • Special characters (BRE)
  • Special characters (ERE)
  • Character Classes
  • BRE operator precedence
  • ERE operator precedence
  • Examples using grep
  • More Examples using grep and egrep
  • Own experiments using regex
  • REPLIT Code with Us session
• Week 5 Notes
  • Command Line Editors
    • ed commands
    • Using ed
    • Commands for editing in ed / ex
• Command Line Editors
• Example files used in the lectures