Appendix

Week 1.
- You can recognize a Unix terminal and a Unix shell
- You can log in to a remote Unix machine through terminal emulation, change password and close the session.
Week 2.
- You know the commands date, cal, hostname, uname
- You know what an environment variable is and some examples like OSTYPE, HOSTNAME, HOSTTYPE, SHELL and TERM. You can querry their values with echo.
- You know that the size of terminal is measured by columns x lines, querry a terminal with resize and that the standard value is 80x24.
Week 3.
- You know how to refer to the Unix manual pages through man
- You know how to refer the GNU Info system through info
- You know the make use of the –help option
- You know to querry the comman shell commands with help
- That most shells make use of the Tab-key to auto-complete commands
- Most shells keeps the previous commands in a buffer and you can turn through it by Up- and Down-arrows
Week 4.
- You have a picture of the hierarchial file structure of Unix
- You remember ls, od, cat, cp, mv, rm, pwd, cd, mkdir and rmdir commands

Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike: The UNIX Programming Environment, Prentice-Hall 1984. Tenth Indian reprint 1996. ISBN-81-2030499-3
http://cm.bell-_labs.com/cm/cs/upe/
From the pioneers of Unix and C, still an excellent introduction for the engineering student. Its first chapter ’Unix for Beginners’ is the basis for this course..
NIIT: ”Basic Linux (edited) [Monograph] / NIIT”. Engineering Library SR 004.45.9 N33, Class no. LEN 00445.9 N33, Acc. No. 643856.
http://www.lib.pdn.ac.lk/scripts/AfWiInq.dll?Details?action=0&site=0&brlk=1309845
This course borrowed heavily from the above monograph.
”LFS101x. Introduction to Linux”,
https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-_linux-_linuxfoundationx-_lfs101x-_2
This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) conducted by the Linux Foundation gave some ideas and inspiration for this course.