Introduction to UNIX Training

Level: Foundation

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Arm yourself with the skills and knowledge needed to administer and support UNIX — a highly reliable OS for environments ranging from mission-critical clusters and servers, to workstations and desktops. This Introduction to UNIX training course provides you with the foundational knowledge needed to locate files by name, owner, type and other characteristics; navigate the UNIX directory hierarchy; manipulate files; and control file access. You also learn to customize the KornShell, and extract and process information with filters and pipes.

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Key Features of this Introduction to UNIX Training

After-course instructor coaching benefit
Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
After-course computing sandbox included

You Will Learn How To

Administer and support UNIX in your environment
Manage data, execute commands, and customize your environment
Navigate the UNIX directory hierarchy, manipulate files, and control file access
Interact with and customize the KornShell
Extract and process information with filters and pipes

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Introduction to UNIX Course Information

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- This course uses OpenSolaris
- Concepts taught are applicable to all UNIX distributions

Introduction to UNIX Course Outline

Interacting with UNIX
The command-line interface
- Role of the shell
- Command format and syntax
Browsing online documentation
- Displaying man pages
- Accessing web reference sources
Managing Files
Essential file housekeeping tools
- Copying: cp
- Renaming: mv
- Removing: rm
- Linking: ln
- Editing: vi
- Printing: lp, lpr
Displaying and interpreting file attributes
- Listing files with ls and ls -l
- Identifying file type, owner, group, size, modification time and index number
Establishing access permissions with chmod
- Symbolic notation
- Octal notation
Navigating Directories
The UNIX directory hierarchy
- Home, current and parent directories
- Root directory and subdirectories
Maintaining directories
- Changing directory with cd
- Making and removing directories
Locating files with find
- Searching using file attributes
- Operating on found files
Working with the KornShell
Command history facility
- Listing past commands
- Recalling and editing a previous command
Employing KornShell tips and tricks
- Filename "wildcards": * , ? , [ ]
Personalizing your shell
- Defining command aliases
- Updating the start-up scripts
- Setting shell variables and options
Accessing UNIX Servers from UNIX and Windows
Logging into a remote server
- Secure Shell
- PuTTY
- Telnet
- Cygwin
- Others
Uploading and downloading files
- Secure FTP
- scp
- FTP
- WinSCP
- Others
Taming Information with Filters
The UNIX tool-building philosophy
- Filtering data streams through pipelines
- Redirecting standard input, output and error streams
Extracting and restructuring data
- Searching: grep
- Sorting: sort
- Editing: sed
- Trimming: head and tail
- Selecting: awk
- Counting: wc
Matching patterns with regular expressions
- Metacharacter examples with grep
- Substituting patterns with sed
- Refining selections with awk
Developing and Executing Scripts
Writing a simple script
- Storing commands in a file
- Marking the file executable
Controlling flow of execution
- Iterating through loops with for and while
- Testing conditions with if/else
- Choosing alternatives with case
- Measuring disk space usage
- Initiating and terminating daemons

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