Fundamentals of UNIX

Course Length - 2 Days

Course Description This two-day Fundamentals of UNIX course provides a comprehensive introduction to the full range of UNIX user commands and utilities. Students will develop shell programming and vi editing skills.

Course Prerequisites None.

Who Should Attend? This course is for end-users and programmers who are new to the UNIX environment.


Course Outline:
A Thing Called UNIX
What is It? Components of a UNIX System A Brief History of UNIX Where Do You Find It?
Learning The Ropes
Logging On Changing Your Password Logging Out Getting Around in UNIX Command Line Syntax Special Keys and Control Characters Filenames Listing Files Identifying the File Type Viewing Files Using cat and more Using the Online Manual Pages Listing Active Users with who Reading the Unix Clock with Date Creating Files with touch Filename Expansions Using Wildcards
File System Concepts
Absolute Pathnames Relative Pathnames Current and Home Directories Changing Directories with cd Creating Directories with mkdir Removing Directories
Basic Commands
Printing Files with lp Copying Filos with cp Moving and Renaming Files with mv Linking Files with ln Removing Files with rm Sorting File Contents with sort Using tr to Translate Characters Searching Files with grep Locating Files with find Counting Words with wc
vi
vi Overview Starting and Stopping vi Moving Through a File Adding Text Making Corrections Cutting and Pasting Text
File Permissions
Listing File Permissions Who Gets Permissions? File Permissions Directory Permissions Changing Permissions Using chmod Setting Default Permission
The Korn Shell
Command History Command Line Editing Alias Filename Completion
UNIX Environment
Listing Processes with ps Filehandles Redirecting stdin Redirecting stdout Redirecting stderr Pipes tee