UNIX Advanced User

This 2-day course covers the competencies and skills identified as key to power UNIX users and developers. The course aims are to give participants a good understanding of the UNIX operating system sufficient to meet the needs of advanced user. Providing hands-on experience, on completion of the course the participants will be able to use a variety of commands, tools and utilities.

Target audience

Power users, programmers and developers working in a UNIX environment. Software and hardware engineers who need a grounding in the UNIX system. Systems Administrators who will work on UNIX systems. Familiarity with basic UNIX computing and programming concepts is required as gained from the work environment or by prior attendence on a "UNIX User Introduction" course.

Course content

File Manipulation Basic Text File Utilities . The head Utility . The tail Utility . The tr Utility . The od Utility . The paste Utility . The split Utility

File Investigation The cmp Utility . The comm Utility . The diff Utility . The uniq Utility . The spell Utility

File Compression The compress, uncompress and zcat Utilities . The pack, unpack and pcat Utilities . A Comparison of the compress and pack Utilities

Backing Up Files Tape Archiving . Copy Input/Output

Command Control The tee Utility . The nice Utility . The wait Utility . Job Suspension and the fg and bg Utilities . The jobs Utility . The cron Untility . cron Tables . The crontab Utility . Editing a cron Table . cron.allow and cron.deny . The at Utility

Advanced vi Facilities Bookmarks . Multiple File Editing . Cut and Paste to Different Files . Accessing Unix Commands from vi . The set Command . EXINIT and .exrc . Mapped Macros . Abbreviations

The sed Utility Basic Editing Facilities . The Use of Regular Expressions . Deleting Lines . Print Selected Lines . sed Scripts

The awk Utility Programs . Checking Numerical Values . Multiple-Line Commands . Arithmetic and Assignment Operators . Variables . BEGIN and END . Built-In Variables . Control of Flow . Looping . Control Commands . Formatting Output . Built-In Functions . User-Defined Functions . Arrays

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