Command-Line Kung Fu: White Belt

I teach Linux/Unix skills to hundreds of students every year. Many of them are relatively inexperienced with the Unix command line and I see them getting frustrated or taking round-about approaches to solving problems, when in reality just knowing a few simple tricks would make them vastly more productive.

Topics covered include:
-- Command line history and tab completion skills
-- Fun with find and xargs
-- Loop constructs
-- cut vs. awk
-- sort and uniq

The talk is interactive and full of live demos. Students can bring their own laptops and play along.