AIX Basics
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In London, Bristol, Edinburgh and 3 other venues
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On completion of the course the delegate will have a good practical knowledge of the AIX Operating System, the command structures and the editor facilities. Suitable for: Personnel who require a good working knowledge of the AIX Operating System and the vi editor.
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About this course
Experience of IT and an understanding of operating systems is required.
Reviews
Subjects
- Creating
- Copying
- Renaming
- Moving and deleting files and directories
Course programme
This IBM AIX Operating System training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the AIX Operating System. The most commonly used commands and utilities are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced.
Skills Gained
The delegates will practise:
- Creating, copying, renaming, moving and deleting files and directories
- Using the shell's redirection and pipe facilities
- Editing text files using the vi editor
- Setting and changing access permissions on files
- Monitoring and controlling their own processes
- Using the basic file and text searching utilities
- Customising their own login environment
Anyone who needs to understand and use the AIX Operating System.
There are no formal pre-requisites for this AIX Basics course, although an understanding of and exposure to information technology is advantageous.
Course Objectives
To provide the skills needed to work productively in the AIX environment.
NOTE: Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
AIX Basics Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 1Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- A brief history of UNIX
- The UNIX kernel
- The UNIX file system
- Getting started navigating the file system
- The file system structure
- Directories and files
- Pathnames
- Navigating the file system
- Exercise: Logging on to the system
- Exercise: Navigating the file system
- Command line syntax
- Basic file handling commands
- Basic Directory handling commands
- Filename wildcard characters
- Exercise: Manipulating files and directories
- Input redirection
- Output redirection
- Pipes
- Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities
Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi EDITOR
- Overview of the vi editor
- Basic functions
- Switching to input mode
- Other useful commands
- Exercise: Using the vi editor
- Exercise: Using more advanced vi features
- Replacing text
- Using the vi editor
- Using sed for search and replace
- Searching for text with grep
- Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text
- Overview
- The bash shell
- The korn shell
- Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands
- Users and user groups
- File access permissions
- Changing file attributes
- Switching users and user groups
- Linking files
- Exercise: Setting and access permissions
Session 8: PROCESSES
- What is a process?
- Monitoring processes
- Killing processes
- Background processes
- Job Control
- Grouping commands
- Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes
- Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
- Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
- Exercise: Setting up an environment
- The find command
- The cut command
- The sort command
- The finger command
- Exercise: Using file handling commands
- AIX Shell Programming
- Oracle SQL
AIX Basics