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Project description and deliverables are found in Unix Tools Project.

Please read project FAQs in FAQ

• Exam number 1 will be held in class on March 6, 2000 at 6 pm for 50 minutes. The exam will cover all materials presented in class and described in the readings up to and including February 28th, 2000.

Exam1

(Slides are available as Powerpoint files (.ppt) or PostScript files, (.ps) PostScript files are 1 slide per page (viewing). For Win32 platforms (95, 98, NT), a PostScript viewer can be downloaded from here. For other platforms, consult the viewer's download page ). (information provided by Prof. Mauny)

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Lecture 1: January 24 Lecture 1 in ppt, Lecture 1 in postscript

• Please read chapters 1,2,3, and 5 from Christian and Richter textbook.
• The Unix Time-sharing System, the 1978 BSTJ update of the 1974 C. ACM article by D.M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson originally describing Unix: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html
• The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System,an account of developments during 1968-1973 by D. Ritchie: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html
• A Stream Input/Output System, from AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, 1984: "http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/st.html"
• Interprocess Communication in the Ninth Edition Unix System,with D. L. Presotto, and D.M.Ritchie: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/ipcpaper.html
• if you are more interested, check Dennis M. Ritchie's web page: "http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/index.htm" and the links he points to such as Multics: http://www.multicians.org

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Lecture 2: January 31, 2000 Lecture 2 in ppt, Lecture 2 in postscript

• Please read chapters 4, 6.1- 6.7, 7.4- 7.8 of the textbook (Christian and Richter) and manual pages on file manipulation commands listed in lecture 1

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Lecture 3: February 7, 2000 Lecture 3 in ppt, Lecture 3 in postscript

• Please read chapter 11 of the textbook (Christian and Richter), and online manual pages for /bin/ksh and /bin/csh

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• Lecture 4 was a continuation of material presented in lecture 3. See slides for lecture 3.
• Please read chapters 12, 6.8, 6.10, 7 and 8 of the textbook (Christian and Richter)

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Lecture 5: February 28, 2000 Lecture 5 in ppt, Lecture 5 in postscript

• Guest speaker: D. Korn: "the Korn Shell"
• korn shell web man page
• Linux Journal article on the korn shell
• ksh memento
• Please read on-line manuals for the following utilities:
• sort
• grep/egrep/fgrep
• find
• cpio
• cmp/diff
• tar
• biff
• uniq
• tr

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• Lecture 6 was a continuation of material presented in lecture 5. See slides for lecture 5

• Please read chapter 13 on the AWK programming Language of the textbook (Christian and Richter)
• Exam number 1 in class

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Lecture 7 : March 20, 2000 Lecture 7 in ppt, Lecture 7 in postscript

• Please read chapter 13 on the AWK programming Language of the textbook (Christian and Richter)

• AWK references from Bell Labs

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Lecture 8 : March 27, 2000 Lecture 8 in ppt, Lecture 8 in postscript

• Please read chapter 14 of the textbook, titled "the Sed text Editor " ,and on-line manual page on sed
• Unix development tools: Unix Programming Tools document from Stanford University
• Unix development tools: Unix Development Tools Class Notes

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Lecture 9 : April 3, 2000 Lecture 9 in ppt, Lecture 9 in postscript

• Unix networking: please read chapters 17, 18 of "The Unix operating System" textbook by Christian and Richter.
• Perl: please read chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 of the "learning Perl" textbook by Schwartz and Christiansen.
• Perl Library from MIT

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Lecture 10 : April 10, 2000 Lecture 10 in ppt, Lecture 10 in postscript

• Perl : please read chapters 4, 5, 6, 8,17 of the "Learning Perl" textbook by Schwartz and Christiansen

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Lecture 11 : April 17, 2000

• Guest Speaker: R. Salama: "Unix and E-Commerce"
• Project documentation due
• Unix Security and Performance :
• please read chapter 22 of Christiansen and Richter
• please read the online manual pages for sar, du, df, prof

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Lecture 12 : April 24, 2000 Lecture 12 in ppt, Lecture 12 in postscript

• Unix System Management:
• Please read chapters 20 and 21 of "the Unix operating system" textbook by Christiansen and Richter.
• X Windows:
• Please read chapter 16 of the "Unix operating System " textbook by Christinasen and Richter
• Project documentation and implementation due

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Lecture 13 : May 1, 2000 Lecture 13 in ppt, Lecture 13 in postscript

• Overview of the Unix Kernel:
• Please read chapter 23 of the textbook by Christiansen and Richter

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Lecture 14 : May 8, 2000

• In-class demo of hotshell_web
• Exam number 2 in class