System Commands

Week 1

• Lecture 1 Getting Started
• Lecture 2, 3 Command Line Environment, Simple Commands 1.0 & FHS

Week 2

• Lecture 1 Simple Commands 2.0
• Lecture 2 Shell Variables
• Lecture 3, 4 Operations on Shell Variables and Arrays
• Lecture 5 Linux Process Management

Week 3

• Lecture 1, 2 Combining commands, File Descriptors & Redirection
• Lecture 3, 4 Software Management

Week 4

• Lecture 1, 2 Grep
• Lecture 3, 4, 5 Command Line Editors : Ed, Nano, Vim, Emacs

Week 5

• Lecture 1 Bash Scripts
• Lecture 2 Shell Programming

Week 6

• Lecture 1 Knowing Your Hardware
• Lecture 2 Prompt Strings
• Lecture 3 Utilities in GNU/Linux
• Lecture 4 Automating Scripts
• Lecture 5 Stream Editor (Sed)

Week 7

• Lecture 1 AWK 1
• Lecture 2 AWK 2

Week 8

• Lecture 1 Managing Storage
• Lecture 2 Networking Commands and SSH
• Lecture 3 A Mini Course on Git

Coming soon advanced concepts or(and) miscellaneous chapters...

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.E., Anna University)
• Sushil

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

To know more about the course syllabus, instructors, and course contents, please click on the below link:

https://onlinedegree.iitm.ac.in/course_pages/BSCSE2001.html