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UNIX: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction

 
Course: 428     Type: Hands-On Training     Duration: 4 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Manage data, execute commands and customize your UNIX environment
  • Locate files by name, owner, type and other characteristics
  • 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
  • Develop shell scripts to simplify and automate frequent tasks

Course Benefits
UNIX is a highly reliable multiuser, multitasking operating system for environments ranging from mission-critical clusters and servers to workstations and desktops. It has become the operating system of choice for servers on the Internet. In this course, you gain the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to take full advantage of this powerful and flexible system.

Who Should Attend
User and application support specialists, software developers, and those working toward becoming an effective system, network or database administrator on the UNIX platform.

Hands-On Training
Throughout this course, a series of hands-on exercises provides you with valuable experience using UNIX. Exercises include:
  • Making, removing and navigating directories
  • Copying, renaming, comparing and viewing files
  • Changing file access permissions
  • Customizing the KornShell environment
  • Accessing a UNIX server
  • Locating files with find
  • Searching, sorting and restructuring data with filter commands
  • Creating and executing shell scripts

Course 428 Content
The Role of UNIX
  • Origins, current uses and applications
  • The UNIX family: Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, Linux, BSD and others
Interacting with UNIX
Graphical user interfaces
  • The Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
  • GNOME, Java Desktop System, others
The command line interface
  • Launching the CDE Terminal Emulator
  • Entering commands to the shell
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": * , ? , [ ]
  • Command substitution: `...`
Personalizing your shell
  • Defining command aliases
  • Updating the start-up scripts
  • Setting shell variables and options
Accessing UNIX Servers from UNIX and Windows
Logging in to 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 as executable
Applying special variables
  • Parsing command line arguments
  • Examining command exit status
Controlling flow of execution
  • Iterating through loops with for and while
  • Testing conditions with if/else
  • Choosing alternatives with case
Monitoring and Customizing Your System
Administering users and groups
  • Adding and changing a user account
  • Assigning users to groups
Querying UNIX system status
  • Measuring disk space usage
  • Initiating and terminating daemons

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