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- The upside of this is that it affords tremendous flexibility, letting you perform complex data manipulations on the command line without writing a formal program or script.
- The downside is that there are a lot of tools to learn, each with many options/switches.
- See Intro Unix: Some Linux commands for a gentle introduction to many useful Linux tools and some of their common options.
Setup to follow hands-on
This class is designed to be hands-on, to provide you with the enjoyment ( 
) of working in the Linux command line environment.
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We have set up 99 "student" accounts, named student26 student21 , student27 student22 .... We'll assign one to you.
The password for these accounts is written on the whiteboard.
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