UNIX Fundamentals

This 3-day course covers the competencies and skills identified as key to intending 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 application developers. Providing hands-on experience, on completion of the course the participants will be able to; understand the concepts underlying UNIX; use a variety of commands, tools and utilities; program the command interpreter (shell); understands the file system; and carry out basic text manipulation.

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 computing and programming concepts is required as gained from working in a PC or mainframe environment. Knowledge of another operating system would be an advantage. Limited knowledge of UNIX gained in a user environment would be beneficial.

Course content

Introduction The History & Features of UNIX

UNIX Standards POSIX . SVID . XOPEN . OSF . ISO

The Structure of UNIX The UNIX System . The Shell . Users . The UNIX File System

Accessing the System Logging On . The Login Process . Exiting from the System

The UNIX Command Command Line Syntax . Multi-Processing . Passwrd . man - online manual

Process Control who . ps - process status . kill . su -substitute user

Directory and File Commands pwd - print word directory . cd - change directory . ls . Wild Cards - File Name Generation . mkdir . mvdir . rmdir . cp . mv . rm . ln . chmod . umask . chown . chgrp

The vi Editor Starting vi . Exiting vi . Modes of Operation . Command Mode . Edit Mode . ex Escape Mode . The Set Command Options

I/O Manipulation Standard Input and Output . Input/Output Redirection/dev/null . cat - concatenate and print . pr - print files . pg - paginate files . more . lp - lineprinter . lpstat - lineprinter status . Cancel . Pipes . Background Commands

File Manipulation wc - word count . grep - global regular expression printer . sort . cut . find

Communications write . mesg . wall - write to all . mail

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