We successfully completed a two day hands on workshop in Unix shell and shell scripting on the 15th & 16th of March 2008. We used GNU/Linux as our platform and we covered several important areas in the Unix shell. The location was LSF – Sahana Lab at the University of Colombo School of Computing.
The content covered during the workshop was:
Day one
- Introduction to the shell and scripting – Anuradha
- Basic filters (head, tail, grep, sort, wc etc) – Bud
- More filters (sed and awk) – Bud
- Advanced shell usage – Sapumal
Day two
- Image processing on the shell – Anuradha
- Automating mundane admin tasks for an ISP – Bud
- iptables, nat and gateway – Sanjeewa
- Designing Advanced Shell Programs – Sapumal
