COMP 2400 Software Tools

Goals: 

• Understand regular expressions (Chapter 7 from UNIX Book below)
  • Also read Chapters 32 and 33 from UNIX Power Tools book
• Download, unpack and install from source code (Tutorial 7)
• Other commands: 
  • grep with invert (-v) 
  • tar
  • xargs
  • du and dk

Useful commands:

• $ find . | xargs grep -i pattern 
                //to do recursive grep on solaris
• $ gunzip < source.tar.gz | tar xvf - 
                //to uncompress and untar on solaris
• wget URL 
       //to download a webpage from the command line

Useful Links:

• UNIX Book

Online Tutorial:

• UNIX Tutorial for Beginners