CSC (0145) 275 - Operating Systems Practicum

Credits: 1.00

Students will gain the necessary skills to be effective on command-line interfaces. Students will learn file system operations, pipelining, redirection, standard streams, compiler build tools, regular expressions, processing data in text files, process management, scripting and basic system administration on Linux and Windows systems.

Prerequisite 1: CSC 175
Students will:

1. Be able to log in to Unix-like systems, and can perform basic filesystem operations
2. Be able to exchange information through pipelining and be able to use pipeline techniques.
3. Be able to use redirection techniques.
4. Be familiar with standard input, standard output and standard error streams.
5. Be able to compile source code packages using common tools, such as autotools and makefiles.
6. Be able to read and write extended regular expressions
7. Be able to process data in text files using tools like grep, awk, sed, tr, cut, sort and uniq.
8. Be able to list running processes on Linux systems, end processes, or reprioritize processes
9. Be able to write scripts in bash.
10. Be able to manage software packages on Linux systems using the OS package manager.
11. Be able to write basic batch files on Linux systems.
12. Be able to write basic Powershell files on Windows systems.