September General Meeting

Unix Tips, Tricks, and Quirks

Speaker: Alan Dewar, Software Engineering Senior Staff Engineer, Synopsys

If you've been using Unix for any reasonable length of time, you're familiar with the basics: file system structure, simple commands, etc. There are more advanced commands and utilities with which you might be less familiar, and which could help you be more productive. Then again, there are some things which are obtuse, quirky, or just plain weird.

Join us for a discussion of the joys, frustrations, and amusements to be had with Unix. We'll have time at the end for you to share your own experiences of the good, the bad, and the quirky!

Alan Dewar is a software engineering senior staff engineer at Synopsys, working as part of the Software Integrity Group. He has been using Unix since the early 1980s and its predecessor, Multics, before that. He is also a long-time CUUG member and director, as well as past President.

Slides from this presentation are available in PowerPoint and PDF format.

707 Fifth ← NEW LOCATION!

707 - 5 St. S.W.
Third floor conference room C

There is $3 parking after 16:00 one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54).

5:30 PM, Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.

Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash only) at the door for non-CUUG members.

RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.

2024 Board of Directors

At the June 2024 Annual General Meeting, the following people were elected to the Board of Directors for 2024/2025:

• Rebecca Reid (President)
• Greg King (Secretary-Treasurer)
• Alex Chow
• Alan Dewar
• Dick Miller