2024 Workshops

It's often used to process raw text files, interpreting the data it finds as records and fields to be manipulated by the user. At its most basic, awk searches files for some unit of text (usually lines terminated with an end-of-line character) containing some user-specified pattern.

Workshop presentation starts at 11:00 a.m.

Presenter: Laurin McLaurin

links to support files:

   countries.csv       ex-20.awk

ClamAV® is an open-source (GPL) anti-virus engine used in a variety of situations, including email and web scanning, and endpoint security. It provides many utilities for users, including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command-line scanner and an advanced tool for automatic database updates.

Workshop presentation starts at 11:00 a.m.

Presenter: Jim Ratts

Regular expressions are specially encoded text strings used as patterns for matching sets of strings. 

They became an important part of the tool suite that emerged from the Unix operating system—the ed, sed and vi (vim) editors, grep, AWK, among others. But the ways in which regular expressions were implemented were not always so regular.

Workshop presentation starts at 11:00 a.m.

Presenter: Dennis Coburn

links to support files:

   presentation pdf file      test-file.txt       best-file.txt

The classic DOS operating system supported a lot of great applications: word processors, spreadsheets, games, and other programs. Just because an application is old doesn't mean it's no longer useful.

There are many reasons to run an old DOS application today. Maybe to extract a report from a legacy business application. Or to play a classic DOS game. Or just because you are curious about "classic computing." You don't need to dual-boot your system to run DOS programs. Instead, you can run them right inside Linux with the help of a DOS emulator.

Workshop presentation starts at 11:00 a.m.

Presenter: Wayne Courtney

The cron command-line utility is a job scheduler on Unix-like operating systems. Users who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts), also known as cron jobs, to run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals. It typically automates system maintenance or administration—though its general-purpose nature makes it useful for things like downloading files from the Internet and downloading email at regular intervals. Cron is most suitable for scheduling repetitive tasks. Scheduling one-time tasks can be accomplished using the associated at utility. 

Workshop presentation starts at 11:00 a.m.

Presenter: Laurin McLaurin

Currently, there are 1.9 billion websites in the world, and over 600 million are blogs. That means that the blogging industry makes up a third of the web.

In this workshop we will compare and contrast websites and blogs. We will demonstrate how to create a functional blog and a simple website at no cost.

Workshop presentation starts at 11:00 a.m.

Presenter: Dennis Coburn