Assignment

You will be working through the various chapters of the Linux Tutorial.

1. The Command Line: What is it, how does it work and how do I get to one.

2. Basic Navigation: An introduction to the Linux directory system and how to get around it.

3. More About Files: Find out some interesting characteristics of files and directories in a Linux environment.

4. Manual Pages: Learn how to make the most of the Linux commands you are learning.

5. File Manipulation: How to make, remove, rename, copy and move files and directories.

6. Vi Text Editor: Discover a powerful Linux based text editor.

7. Wildcards: Also referred to as globbing, this is a means to refer to several files in one go.

8. Permissions: Learn to identify and change the permissions of files and directories and what the consequences of these are.

9. Filters: An introduction to various commands that allow us to mangle data in interesting and useful ways.

10. Grep and Regular Expressions: Master a powerful pattern matching language that is useful for analysing and processing data.

11. Piping and Redirection: Join commands together in powerful combinations.

12. Process Management: See what is currently running on your Linux system and what state the system is in, learn how to kill programs that have hung and put jobs in the background.

13. Scripting: Be happy. Get the computer to do tedious and repetitive tasks for you.

Git Setup on Jupyter Hub

• Log on to the department's Jupyterhub instance
• Clone your Bitbucket belhavencs repo in your home directory
• Create a directory for this assigment:

cd belhavencs/csc221 mkdir hw2 cd hw2 mkdir ch{1..13}

• All of your chapter work will go inside belhavencs/csc221/hw2 (in individual directories: ch1 through ch13)

Chapters

For each chapter you will need to do the following:

• Create a README.md file in each directory, you can do this via the Jupyter server/notebook interface or by using vim.

• Work through the examples in the chapter. Don't just skim it, read it and type out the example code. You will have to modify it to make sense for you, but do the work.

• Do the activities at the end of each chapter. Take notes for each activity in your README.md file using Markdown formatting, making sure to separate each activity using headers and plenty of whitespace (e.g. # Activity 1)

Push Work to Bitbucket

To push your work up to Bitbucket:

cd ~/belhavencs/csc221/hw2 git add ch*/README.md git commit ch*/README.md -m 'first commit of README files for hw2' git push

To check your work, go to your belhavencs repo on Bitbucket and navigate to the belhavencs/csc221/hw2directory in the source tree. In each chapter directory, you should see pretty HTML of your work. If it looks like garbage, you might want to fix the Markdown code in your README.md files.