Outline of Syllabus
A8-R3:-Basics of OS, Unix, & Shell Programming
S.No
Topic
Duration (Hrs)
1
Operating System Concepts
08
2
The File System
03
3
File Attributes
02
4
The Vi Editor
03
5
The Shell as Interpreter
03
6
Process Management
04
7
Networking Tools
06
8
The X-Window System
02
9
Filters and Regular Expressions
03
10
The awk Filter
03
11
Shell Programming
06
12
C Programming Tools
04
13
UNIX Internals
06
14
Administering File Systems
04
15
General System Administration
03
Lecture =60
Practical =60
Total class =120
BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR READING AND REFERENCE
MAIN READING
  • Maurice J. Bach, "Design of the Unix Operating System"
  • Sumitabha Das, "Unix : Concepts and Applications"
SUPPLEMENTARY READING
  • "A User guide to Unix system "
  • Stephen Prata "Advanced Unix-A Programmer's Guide"