UNIX Basic Concepts & Facilities

 LENGTH OF COURSE:
5 Days

DESCRIPTION: This course provides students with the fundamental concepts, facilities and features of UNIX. This intense course is designed for the professional who has or is about to make the migration to the UNIX environment. The course begins with the basics of UNIX and concludes with the evaluation of key UNIX system components.

PREREQUISITES: None

INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES: A combination of Lecture, Demonstration, and Labs (when/where available).

AUDIENCE

Any student that needs to become UNIX Literate.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Shell Concepts
  • The history and use of UNIX
  • UNIX terminology
  • UNIX compared to other operating systems
  • The role of UNIX in Open Systems
  • Flavors and variations of UNIX
  • UNIX Navigation and Security
  • Using UNIX Commands
  • Introduction to programming in UNIX
  • Foreground and background processing
  • Scheduled processes
  • The UNIX system editors
    • vi, ed, spell, ex
    • Cursor Movement
    • Scrolling
    • Search and Substitute
    • Copy and Move Text
    • Programming Aids & Tools
    • Advanced Features of VI
  • Global Search and Replace Commands
    • GREP, FGREP, EGREP, SED


  • The UNIX file system, file commands, and maintenance
  • System utilities and features
  • Pipes and Filters
  • Communications
  • Managing files in UNIX
  • The Shell Programming & Customization
    • Customizing Your Session
    • Shell Start-up Files
    • Shell Options
    • Aliasing
    • History (re-editing previous commands)
    • .profile (KSH)
    • .login and others
  • C and the UNIX System
  • System manager utilities
  • The UNIX System Kernel
  • Multi-processor support


  • RPC's
  • Distributed processing
  • FTP, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NFS, RFS
  • Future of the UNIX Product


FROM OUR STUDENT EVALUATIONS...
"I was very pleased to learn some of the subtle things about UNIX that aren't covered in other courses or books."

Gerald Knight
T. Rowe Price

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