We successfully completed a two day hands on workshop in Unix shell and shell scripting on the 15^th & 16^th of March 2008. We used GNU/Linux as our platform and we covered several important areas in the Unix shell. The location was LSF - Sahana Lab at the University of Colombo School of Computing.

The content covered during the workshop was:

Day one

• Introduction to the shell and scripting - Anuradha
• Basic filters (head, tail, grep, sort, wc etc) - Bud
• More filters (sed and awk) - Bud
• Advanced shell usage - Sapumal

Day two

• Image processing on the shell - Anuradha
• Automating mundane admin tasks for an ISP - Bud
• iptables, nat and gateway - Sanjeewa
• Designing Advanced Shell Programs - Sapumal

Blog Posts:

• Dassa's Blog Post

Photo Blogs:

• Dassa's Photo Blog
• Bud's Photo Blog