[Gloucs] Re: Guy's Linux class

Shaun gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue Jan 21 23:36:02 2003


Guy - I would like to add my thanks. I didn't know as much as I thought I=
 did=20
and found it very useful. As I mentioned on the night I will probably be =
away=20
next week but will catch up with what is happening the following week.

Shaun

On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 4:14 pm, Guy Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 09:18, john mckeown wrote:
> > Thanks for your LPI class, I enjoyed
> > the session, very helpful, and interesting
> > to be on time-share system at class,
> > seeing effects of others actions as they
> > type, whereas up to then I'd only ever
> > experienced Linux on a home PC.
>
> Thanks for the feedback, it started out really simple but hopefully
> everyone learnt a bit. It should get a little harder each week.
>
> Basically I had about 20 minutes to prepare this week due to the Server
> acting bonkers (technical term). Next week I'll actually have some kind
> of thought-out structure to the presentation and I'll have some
> demonstration files to process on the server and a handout of some sort=
=2E
>
> This is what we did this week (+other things I can't remember):
>
> streaming: >, >>, <, <<, |
> using variables: export, set, unset, echo, env
> aliases: alias, unalias
> processes: ps, kill, nice, renice, top, fg, bg, &
> other: man, pwd, .profile .bashrc, --help, which, whereis, ls, cat, ",
> ', `, sleep, more, grep
>
> Looking at the things for next week I think I said we'd do some vi
>
> "Candidate must be able to edit text files using vi. This objective
> includes vi navigation, basic vi nodes, inserting, editing, deleting,
> copying, and finding text." (LPI website)
>
> which should be pretty good. I think I also said we'd do processing tex=
t
> streams but I'd just like to fill some holes in what we did last time,
> cover file management (mv, cp, rm touch etc) and file permissions along
> with vi. That should fill up the lesson pretty well but if there's time
> we can start on text processing.
>
> The text processing will cover
> cat, cut, expand, fmt, head, join, nl, od, paste, pr, sed, sort, split,
> tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, wc
>
> Guy
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