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Week 4 Notes for NET2003
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-Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca

Remember - knowing how to find out an answer is more important than
memorizing the answer.  Learn to fish!  RTFM!  (Read The Fine Manual)

Reminder: Midterm Test #1 begins Week #4 (see the course home page).

The midterm test has been marked and answers posted.  (Wednesday 4pm)

Keep up on your readings (Course Outline: average 5 hours/week)

Order of shell operations:
  In Notes unix_shell.txt read "Command line order of processing" 
  - this is critical in understanding how the shell reads your input lines

New and updated Notes files:
  week04notes.txt     Week 4 Notes for NET2003
  command_substitution.txt     Command Substitution - $(unix command)
  deep_nesting.txt   Avoiding deeply nested IF statements
  finding_files.txt      Searching for and finding files by name.
  less_code.txt      Less Code is Better Code - stop cutting and pasting
  man_page_RTFM.txt      Searching for items in the Unix manual pages (RTFM)
  miscellaneous.txt      Miscellaneous Unix Facts
  shell_read.txt     Reading stdin into shell variables
  shell_script_execution.txt     How a Shell Script is "Executed".
  shell_variables.txt    Shell Variables you should know (including $* and $@)
  umask.txt          Umask and Permissions
  unix_command_list.txt  Basic Unix/Linux Command List

Optional:
  collate_order.txt   Collate order - making GLOB patterns and sorting work
  job_control.txt     Shell background/foreground job control