HP-UX System Administration

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In Birmingham

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    Course

  • Location

    Birmingham

This 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.The delegates will practise:Creating, copying, renaming, moving and deleting files and directoriesUsing the shell's redirection and pipe facilitiesEditing text files using the vi editorSetting and changing access permissions on filesMonitoring and controlling their own processesUsing the basic file and text searching utilitiesCustomising their own login environment

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Birmingham (West Midlands)

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Subjects

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  • Systems Administration
  • Unix
  • Operating Systems
  • Operating System

Course programme

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Introduction to the HP-UX Operating System (8 topics)

  • 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

Basic Commands (4 topics)

  • Command line syntax
  • Basic file handling commands
  • Basic Directory handling commands
  • Filename wildcard characters

Redirection and Pipes (3 topics)

  • Input redirection
  • Output redirection
  • Pipes

Introduction to the vi Editor (4 topics)

  • Overview of the vi editor
  • Basic functions
  • Switching to input mode
  • Other useful commands

Searching and Replacing Text (5 topics)

  • Replacing text
  • Using the vi editor
  • Using sed for search and replace
  • Searching for text with grep
  • Linking files

Recalling and Editing Commands (3 topics)

  • Overview
  • The bash shell
  • The korn shell

File Permissions and Access Control (5 topics)

  • Users and user groups
  • File access permissions
  • Changing file attributes
  • Switching users and user groups
  • Linking files

Processes (6 topics)

  • What is a process?
  • Monitoring processes
  • Killing processes
  • Background processes
  • Job Control
  • Grouping commands

More Basic Commands (5 topics)

  • The wc (word count) command
  • The find command
  • The cut command
  • The sort command
  • The finger command

The User Environment (2 topics)

  • Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
  • Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc

HP-UX System Administration

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