UNIX fundamentals training course description

An introduction to using the UNIX operating system focussing on the command line. Appropriate for all versions of UNIX. The starting point for all UNIX work, we concentrate on the technical aspects rather than issues such as using browsers. The course is heavily practical in nature.

What will you learn

• Describe UNIX.
• Log in and use UNIX commands to perform a variety of tasks from manipulating and printing files to looking at and killing processes.
• Create and edit files with vi.
• Recognise the role of the administrator.
• Write simple shell scripts.
• Customise the user environment.

UNIX fundamentals training course details

UNIX fundamentals training course contents

• What is UNIX?

Operating systems, UNIX flavours, UNIX features.

• Getting started

Logging in, changing passwords, logging out.

• UNIX basics

Command structure. The UNIX manuals, basic commands (who, date, tty, uname, echo, banner...)

• Filesystem commands

Home directories, manipulating files and directories, Filesystem layout, Pathnames, hard and symbolic links.

• The UNIX Editors

ed, vi, shell escapes, .exrc

• Extracting data from files

grep, find, cut, sort and paste

• Permissions

Theory, chmod, chown, newgrp..

• Processes

ps, kill, background processes, at, exec, priorities.

• The Shell

Metacharacters, piping and redirection.

• Basic shell scripting

What are shell scripts? Simple scripts, control structures. Variables. Arguments.

• Customising your environment

Environmental variables, stty, .profile and other startup files

• More shell features

Bash and other shells, the history facility, command line editing, aliases, job control, miscellaneous features.

• Introduction to administration

The root user, su and tar

• Archiving files

Backups, tar, cpio, dd, gzip.

• Unix and hardware

Main hardware components, Unix device drivers.

• Connecting to a network

IP configuration, ifconfig, ping, netstat, traceroute, dig.

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