NewTlug Meetings:2007-03-27

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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:25:35 -0400 (AST) From: "Herb Richter" <hgr@buynet.com> Subject: Mar 27th NewTLUG meeting - this time for sure!

This month's NewTLUG meeting will be held at Seneca College on the YorkU campus in room S2168 (SEQ building)

Date: Tues Mar 27th Time: 7 - 10pm


Topics: two or three topics, including *this time for sure!* :

"Command Line 101" ...a look at and discussion of useful or essential command line commands or operations.

The tentative topic for this month is: "shell expansion" ie:

  • wildcards etc,
  • what to do when they fail (xargs, find...|, perl's readdir etc)
  • scope of expansion (ie what gets passed to the command - esp. if the expansion does not match any entries in the working dir) also practical limits to directory sizes


Presenter(s):

Matt Rice <matt@starnix.com> and others.


Location:

Room S2168 Stephen E. Quinlan building (SEQ) - Seneca@York note that this room is different from the usual one. Building number 40 on the map: http://www.yorku.ca/web/futurestudents/map/KeeleMasterMap.pdf

The Seneca@York Campus, is physically located in the south east part of York University, at Keele/Steeles. note that this room is different from the usual one)


Directions:

For detailed directions and info on public transit, please see: http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~praveen.mitera/seneca-directions.html

Parking:

Paid parking is available on campus ($8 or $10?). Building #84 on the map above is a close-by parking garage. - note #87 the parking lot is no longer for visitors so PLEASE use the parking garage (#84)

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