Unix Essentials and Charms: from Pipes to Perl
Abstract
Unix is a Powerful computing environment in which the user can both
destroy all his work with one command and/or save himself hours of time
with a carefully written one-line command. The goal of this talk is to
impart some of the essential knowledge, preventing the
former and some of the charms allowing the latter. The intended audience
ranges from those users who are new to the Unix operating system to those
that could benefit from a deeper understanding of regular expressions.
The first part will concentrate on navigation and use of the unix file
system, how to do basic tasks and how to get information. The second part
will deal with regular expressions, especially in the context of important
unix tools such as awk, grep, egrep, sed, vi and perl.