Unix Brownbag Seminar

Here is an ambitious list of things to cover in just one hour.

• What is Unix and why use it
• Start from home (or ~ in nerdspeak)
• ls and "dot" files
• What a mess, using subdirectories and links
• Permission Denied? file ownership
• Where's that confounded file
• It doesn't work for me. Paths and environments
• shells
• A dot c s h r what?
• Unix help written by nerds for nerds but useful to know about
• scripts, binaries, and plain old text
• Its stuck: ps and kill
• redirects and pipes
• grep and awk
• References