UNIX Training - Introduction to UNIX

UX01 - Introduction to UNIX
Duration	3 days, hands-on (5 days if shell scripts included)
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Delegates with little or no previous UNIX experience who will be working within a Sun Solaris or HP-UX UNIX environment.

A general understanding of computer concepts and keyboard skills.

On completion of this course the student will be able to:

Understand the history and ethos behind UNIX
Use the basic features of the UNIX environment
Understand the structure of the UNIX filesystem and the commands used to create and manipulate files and directories
Explain the reason behind connecting one or more programs together to provide functionality
Use the text editor vi
Use either the Korn shell or C shell command interpreter but also be aware of other shells
Use filename generation metalanguage
Understand the use of grep
Use command recall and history
Manipulate processes
Control foreground and background tasks

INTRODUCTION TO UNIX: Concepts underlying UNIX; UNIX commands to access the operating system; Controlling input to and output from commands; Connecting programs together (IPC); The text editor vi; Create, modify and delete files; Moving files around; UNIX filesystem; Commands to manipulate files and directories; The Korn shell or C shell command interpreter; Command recall and history; Filename generation; Printing; Manage foreground and background processes; Backup and restore (optional); The cron command (optional); Shell scripts (optional)