UNIX Introduction

This UNIX introduction course is a fundamentals course, and an excellent introduction to using UNIX. The course will provide you with the skills necessary to become a confident, competent user. With a high practical content, this course gives ample opportunity to practice the concepts learned during the formal classroom sessions.
lThe practical sessions and labs are task based, and illustrate the real-life problems and challenges often encountered.

This course is also available for one-company, on-site presentations and for live presentation over the Internet, via the Virtual Classroom Environment service.

What you will learn

On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

use UNIX documentation
move around the UNIX directory structure
create, copy and move files and directories
understand UNIX file permissions
use the vi editor
list and control processes
understand and use UNIX metacharacters
use grep, cut, awk, sed and sort
change login profiles.

Who Should Attend

All those who need a comprehensive introduction to using UNIX.

Prerequisites

As this is a introduction to UNIX, it is assumed that attendees have not used UNIX before. Basic IT exposure is assumed.

Duration

3 days

Fee (per attendee)

£1700 (ex VAT)

This includes free online 24/7 access to course notes.

Hard copy course notes are available on request from rsmshop@rsm.co.uk

at £50.00 plus carriage per set.

Course Code

UXIN

Introduction and Orientation

Introduction & objectives; A short history; Free UNIX; UNIX component; UNIX filesystem; Graphical Interfaces; Logging in; Logging out: text, graphical; UNIX command structure; Commands: user information, system information; Modifying user attributes; Communicating with users: Sending mail, Opening mail; Keyboard sequences; Test your progress; Check your progress; Command summary.
Practical exercises.

Documentation

Overview; Using man; The --help switch (Linux); Using info (Linux); /usr/share/doc; Web resources; Test your progress; Check your progress.
Practical exercises.

Files & Directories

What are files and directories?; What file types are there?; Directories; Pathnames; Important directories; Moving around; Using ls; Creating & removing directories; Copying files and directories; Moving/renaming files & directories; Displaying text files; Displaying file information; The find command; Links; Test your progress; Check your progress; Command summary.
Practical exercises.

Permissions

Users and groups; Permission concept; chmod; chown & chgrp; umask; Test your progress; Check your progress; Command summary.
Practical exercises.

Shell metacharacters

What is a metacharacter?; Wildcards; Redirection; Variables; Using pipes; Quoting; Command substitution; Test your progress; Check your progress; Metacharacter summary.
Practical exercises.

Processes

Process priorities; Listing processes; Using kill; Using pkill (if supported); Bash shell job contro; Test your progress; Check your progress; Command summary.
Practical exercises.

Advanced Utilities

grep; Regular expressions; Using cut; The awk command; sed; Using sort; Putting it together; Test your progress; Check your progress; Command summary.
Practical exercises.

Initialisation scripts

Aliases; Functions; Using set; Shell variables; Exporting variables; Initialisation scripts; $HOME/.profile or $HOME/.bash_profile; $HOME/.kshrc; Scripts for other shells; Test your progress; Check your progress; Command summary; File/Directory summary.
Practical exercises.

Using vi

Command mode; Insertion; Deletion; Replacing; Copy/cut and pasting; Movement; Searching; Miscellaneous; Exiting vi; Customising vi; Test your progress; Check your progress; Command summary.
Practical exercises.