Introduction to the Unix (-like) operating system. This lecture briefly touches the basics of command line magic, Shell scripts, awk, grep and variables.
Examples are given in the slides. We recommend to play with these and vary them.
Also explore the directories in your path, such
as /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin etc. Ask the man pages for more info about the tools that live in these
directories: man COMMAND, also try to figure out what the program itself will tell you about it's reason for existance (use the -h, --help flags).
Also try playing with redirections and pipes. Vary the examples given in the slides.
You may want to consider to switch completely to a Unix like operating system :).
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