CS 9E, "Productive Use of the UNIX Environment"

    1 unit, self-paced, P/NP;
    offered fall and spring semesters.
    Restrictions on enrollment: CS 9E should be counted as a
    "computer science service course", with restrictions on credit
    toward graduation as specified in the rules for such courses.

ABBREVIATED COURSE TITLE

    PRODUCTIVE UNIX

INSTRUCTOR IN CHARGE

    M. Clancy, Senior Lecturer

CATALOG DESCRIPTION

    Use of UNIX utilities and scripting facilities for 
    customizing the programming environment, organizing files
    (possibly in more than one computer account), implementing a
    personal data base, reformatting text, and searching for 
    online resources.

PREREQUISITE

    Programming experience similar to that gained in CS 61A or Eng 77N;
    previous use of a DOS or UNIX environment.

EXPANDED DESCRIPTION

    CS 9E focuses on several activities an individual user might
    engage in to become more productive with UNIX:  customizing one's
    environment, organizing one's files, implementing a personal data
    base, text reformatting, and searching for resources.  These
    activities involve the use of the UNIX "shell" (command interpreter)
    and a variety of tools provided with UNIX systems.

    The course is similar to others in the CS 9 series.  Course
    activities include quizzes that test details of utilities
    or scripting facilities and programming assignments that provide
    practice with their use.

    Topic coverage is approximately as follows.
	Segment 1: use of several utilities (comm, cut, head, tail,
	    sort, tr, wc) alone and in combination; customization
	    of one's .login and X initialization files; navigation
	    through the UNIX file directory and through various
	    online documentation resources; job control
	Segment 2: shell scripting; network use (ssh, scp, rlogin,
	    rcp, rsh, telnet, ftp, mail) and web browsing; using
	    and comparing compression and archiving utilities.
	Segment 3: sed, used in combination with shell scripts;
	    regular expressions; make; find.
	Segment 4: awk.


TEXTBOOKS

    *A Practical Guide to the UNIX System*, third edition,
    by Mark Sobell (Benjamin-Cummings, 1996)

    *UNIX for the Impatient*, second edition, by Paul Abrahams and
    Bruce Larson (Addison-Wesley, 1996)

    *UNIX Power Tools*, second edition, by Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly,
    and Mike Loukides (O'Reilly and Associates, 1997)