Motivation for shells and command line (Radovan, 5 min)

bash is 27 years old
why the command line is still alive in 2016 (efficiency, bandwidth, reproducibility)
why are command names so short?
unix philosophy

Brief intro to Stallo (Espen, 15 min)

First steps (Espen, 10 min)

echo “hello world”
man pages
help
apropos/whatis?
history, up, down, reverse search

Navigating in the file tree (Espen, 20 min)

permissions
cp, mv, rm, rmdir, mkdir
hidden files
ls -l, -a,-ltr etc
tree
cd, cd -, cd ~
which
symlinks
du -h

Break (10 min)

File inspection (Giacomo, 30 min)

wc
cat
less
more
tail (-f)
head

Data mining (Dan, 40 min)

find
grep
sort
uniq
cut
pipes
replace
sed
awk?

Break (10 min)

Scripting (Radovan, 40 min)

shebang
variables
argv
conditionals
loops (file renaming, restructuring)
$(eval), $(), escapes
stdin, stdout, stderr
redirection
exit codes and &&
time
difference between defining and exporting variables

Environment (Radovan, 10 min)

aliases
.bash_profile, .bashrc, .profile
environment variables
printenv

AOB

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