Lecture 3

Notes

Intro to the shell (continued)

  • Commands for text manipulation

    Shell programming

  • Scripts, permissions
  • Quoting, arithmetic, variables
  • Arguments
  • Return values
  • Flow control

    Booting

  • Supervisor applications (BIOS, Monitor)
  • Sequence of events at startup
  • Services and daemons

    Here are some example shell scripts.
    Here the Linux install instructions.
    Here the Solaris install instructions. <- Not there yet.