HP-UX Introduction
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In Bristol, London, Edinburgh and 3 other venues
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On completion of the course the delegate will have a good practical knowledge of the HPUX Operating System, the command structures and the editor facilities. Suitable for: Personnel who require a good working knowledge of the HPUX Operating System and the vi editor.
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About this course
Experience of IT and an understanding of operating systems is required.
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Subjects
- Creating
- Copying
- Renaming
- Moving and deleting files and directories
Course programme
This Hewlett Packard HP-UX Operating System training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the HP-UX Operating System. The most commonly used commands and utilities are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities.
The course discusses the mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment 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 HP-UX Operating System.
There are no formal pre-requisites, although an understanding of and exposure to information technology is advantageous.
Course Objectives
To provide the skills needed to work productively in the HP-UX environment.
Examinations
This course, together with the HP-UX Shell Programming and HP-UX Administration courses, covers the main topics required for the HP-UX 11i v3 System Administration (HP0-P20) exam.
Before taking any exam, ensure you have the recommended experience. The HP-UX website lists all exam requirements and these are updated regularly.
Exams are not included as part of the course.
Follow-On Courses
- HP-UX Shell Programming
- Oracle SQL
HP-UX Introduction 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
- Overview of the vi editor
- Basic functions
- Switching to input mode
- Other useful commands
- Exercises: 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
- 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
- HP-UX Shell Programming
- Oracle SQL
HP-UX Introduction