Topics:

• Introduction to the linux operating system
• Introduction to perl: Your first program, variables, builtin functions, string manipulation

Assignments:

• Run the command 'top', which shows cpu and memory utilization. How can you sort processes according to their total memory usage (virtual + main)?
• How can you count the number of files in a directory with a single (compound) command?
• How can you find a file on a secondary disk that is not indexed by updatedb?

Links:

• Linux tutorial
• Perl tutorial
• Perl for exploring DNA code snipets