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This course provides technical staff new to UNIX and Linux with a sound appreciation of the operating system.  The course provides delegates with knowledge and confidence in the most useful UNIX & Linux tools and utilities.  On completion, delegates will have a fundamental knowledge of the UNIX & Linux operating systems and be able to use some of the more advanced facilities. Having gained suitable, complementary experience they can progress to further specialised training to establish peak effectiveness. Audience

Technical staff (support personnel, application developers, system integrators) and users requiring the basic skills necessary to interface effectively with UNIX and Linux based Open Systems. This course is suitable for all major vendor releases of UNIX and Linux, including AIX (up to 7.x), HP-UX, Sun Solaris, SCO UNIXWare, Red Hat, SuSE, Debian etc Learning Objectives On completion of this course delegates will be able to: Describe the various interfaces to UNIX and Linux.Benefit from the CDE, GNOME and KDE desktop environments.Work with the command line and use basic UNIX & Linux commands.Navigate the filesystem and manipulate files and directories.Print files using the various commands available in the popular flavours of UNIX and Linux.Maintain file security.Manage processes.Benefit from the functionality of the Korn and BASH shell.Edit text with vi and vim. Access the web and utilise mail services.Create Simple Shell Scripts.

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Delegates should be technical staff who have some knowledge of the Windows operating system at any level. No prior experience with UNIX or Linux is required.

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  • Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Unix
  • Linux
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Course programme

Welcome to the world of UNIX and Linux
Why do Users choose UNIX and Linux?
An Operating System
The UNIX and Linux Operating Systems
Components of the Operating System
Organisation of a UNIX and Linux System
The Kernel
The Filesystem
The Shell
User Interfaces
Terminal based interface
The Command Processor
Utilities
Windows based Interfaces (CDE, KDE and Gnome)
Using a Graphical Interface
Distributed Environments and Client/Server
Networking

Logging On and Getting Help
Logging On
Accessing the Command Line
Format of UNIX and LinuxCommands
Getting Help
Internet Based Help
Setting and Changing the Password

Navigating the Filesystem
Structure of a UNIX and Linux Filesystem
Identifying Files and Directories
Address Formats
The Home Directory
Where am I? (pwd)
Moving Around the Filesystem (cd)
Listing Directory Contents
Creating Directories
Removing Directories
Displaying Files
Displaying File Contents
Copying Files and Directories
Moving and Renaming Files & Directories
Removing Files

Shell Facilities
The Shell Environment
Using Wildcards (Metacharacters)
Default Action of the Shell
Saving Output and Using File Input (Redirection)
Bolting Commands Together (piping)
Gluing Files Together (cat)
Aliases

Printing
Formatting a file to be printed
Print File
Print Request
Cancel Print Request
Enable Printer
Line Printer Status Information

Editing With vi and vim
Introducing the vi and vim Editors
Key Tricks
vi and vim Modes
The vi and vim Editor for Beginners
Some Further Useful features

Process Handling
What is a Process?
Interactive or Background?
Process Fork / exec
Process, Report Status
Process, kill a
Allocating Priority
Logging out using Nohup
Sequential Command

Additional UNIX and Linux Commands
Display Date
Display a Calander
Spell Checking
Word Count
Mail Usage
Who is on the System
Write to User
Grep
Regular Expressions

UNIX and Linux Utilities
The Find Utility
Sort or merge Files
sed

UNIX and Linux Security
File System Permissions
Change mode
Symbolic Notation
Octal Notation
Change owner
Change group
Default Creation Mode (umask)
Backup and Restore
Working With Compressed Files
Tar Utility
Cpio Utility
Pathname considerations for backup utilities

The Shell Environment
Shell Environment
System Variables
Shell Variables
Assigning Variables
Displaying Variable Values
Exporting variables
Shell Interpretation
Using Quotes in the Shell
The Back Quote
The Single Quote
The Double Quotes
The Backslash
Special Escape Characters
Additional Korn Shell Facilities

Shell Programming
Shell Scripts
Executing Shell Scripts
Passing Arguments To A Program
Positional Parameters
Special Shell Parameters
The Read Command

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