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UNIX Introduction
UNIX Introduction Course Overview
This Unix Operating System training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the UNIX Operating System. The most commonly used unix commands and utilities are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced.
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Who will the Course Benefit?
Anyone who needs to understand and use the UNIX Operating System.
There are no formal pre-requisites for the UNIX Introduction course, although an understanding of and exposure to information technology is advantageous.
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Course Objectives
To provide the skills needed to work productively in the UNIX environment.
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This is a Unix Introduction course by Uplatz.
UNIX Introduction
UNIX Introduction Training Course
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM
- A brief history of UNIX
- The UNIX kernel
- The UNIX file system
- Getting started navigating the file system
- The file system structure
- Directories and files
- Pathnames
- Navigating the file system
- Exercise: Logging on to the system
- Exercise: Navigating the file system
Session 2: BASIC COMMANDS
- Command line syntax
- Basic file handling commands
- Basic Directory handling commands
- Filename wildcard characters
- Exercise: Manipulating files and directories
Session 3: REDIRECTION AND PIPES
- Input redirection
- Output redirection
- Pipes
- Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities
UNIX Introduction Training Course
Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi EDITOR
- Overview of the vi editor
- Basic functions
- Switching to input mode
- Other useful commands
- Exercises: Using the vi editor
- Exercise: Using more advanced vi features
Session 5: SEARCHING AND REPLACING TEXT
- Searching and replacing text using the vi editor
- Using regular expressions (regex)
- Using sed for search and replace
- Searching for text with grep, egrep and fgrep
- Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text
Session 6: RECALLING AND EDITING COMMANDS
- Overview
- The bash shell
- The korn shell
- Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands
Session 7: FILE PERMISSIONS AND ACCESS CONTROL
- Users and user groups
- File access permissions
- Changing file attributes
- Switching users and user groups
- Linking files
- Exercise: Setting and access permissions
UNIX Introduction Training Course
Session 8: FILTERING TEXT
- Overview
- The cut command
- An introduction to awk
- The nl command
- Exercises: Filtering Text
Session 9: PROCESSES
- What is a process?
- Monitoring processes
- Killing processes
- Background processes
- Job Control
- Grouping commands
- Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes
Session 10: THE USER ENVIRONMENT
- Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
- Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
- Exercise: Setting up an environment
Session 11: MORE BASIC COMMANDS
- The find command
- Using xargs command
- The locate command
- The df command
- The cut command
- The sort command
- Finding duplicate content
- The finger and pinky commands
- Exercise: More Basic Commands
