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21a Peach Street, Wokingham, Berkshire, UK
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Unix Fundamentals Course


Course Description
The objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the UNIX operating system.

At the end of the course delegates will have the fundamental skills required to login to a Unix system, manage files and directories, use Unix commands and manage processes, use an editor, access the electronic mail facility and create simple shell scripts.

Course pre-requisites:
Delegates should be computer literate and familiar with the basic usage of an operating system, although no prior knowledge of UNIX is required.
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Topics covered on the 3 day Unix Fundamentals course


Introduction to UNIX

  • History of Unix, Unix Features, Unix System V, Standards

Executing UNIX Commands

  • Logging in, The shell prompts, Unix Commands syntax, Arguments and options, Basic Unix commands, Terminal characteristics.

Using Electronic Mail

  • Reading your mail, Sending mail, Saving mail, Replying and forwarding, Deleting mail messages.

The UNIX Filesystem

  • File system structure, Directories and files, Important Unix directories, The Kernel, User's home directory, Naming convention.

Accessing Files

  • Wildcards, Pathnames (Absolute & Relative), Changing Directories, Listing files, File details, Sub-directories (making & removing).

Redirection

  • Standard input & output devices, redirecting output and appending output, Displaying contents of files.

File Management

  • Copying files, Removing files, (interactively & recursively), Moving files, Managing Multiple files, Removing directories

Permissions

  • Finding User, Group and other permissions, Read, Write and Execute permissions, Effect of permissions on files and directories, The unmask, Changing permissions on files and directories. Changing file ownership and group

Linking files

  • I-nodes, Hard links, Symbolic links

Printing

  • Formatting for printing, Sending files to the printer.

Sorting the Contents of Files

  • ASCII, Normal Sort, Numeric Sort, Merging Sorted Files, Saving the Sorted Output, Sort Keys, Multiple Keys, Field Separators, Duplicated Records, Case Sensitivity.

Other Unix File Utilities

  • Counting words, lines and characters, Looking at the start and end of files, File comparisons Creating ed scripts with diff. Suppressing duplicated output.

Combining Unix Commands and Utilities

  • Piping standard output to new commands, Filtering standard output in a pipeline.

Finding Files

  • The find command syntax, Defining search, Find actions, Executing commands on matched files

Finding patterns in files

  • Grep regular expressions, Special characters

The Unix editors

  • Invoking vi, COmmand and edit mode, Moving around, Undo, Deleting, Saving, Pattern searches, Changing text, Replacing text, Moving text, Copying and Pasting, Joining lines, Named buffers, The ed editor, Substitution, Global substitution.

Introduction to Bourne & Korn Shells

  • Different shells and features, Invoking a shell, The PATH, Quotation marks, Variables, Shell variables, Exporting variables, Environment variables, Process variables, User profiles.

Processes

  • Foreground processes, Background processes, Command priority, Process status, Killing processes

Shell Script Basics

  • Creating and executing a script, Script parameters

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This is an instructor led training course taught in a classroom based environment.

Course Classification:  Technical Training Course


Course Fee = £945
   (excl.VAT)


Scheduled course dates
May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008
27-299-117-911-138-10



If you would prefer to run this course at your premises as you have several employees to place on the course perhaps, then we are also able to offer onsite Unix Training and bespoke Unix courses


If you want to attend the course but can't make the dates published then click here for details of our one-to-one training packages.


The Unix Fundamentals course qualifies for the PTR SAVE IT Scheme, which offers discounts on bookings for multiple courses and/or multiple delegates.

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PTR Associates Limited

21A Peach Street, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1XJ, United Kingdom
Tel: 0118 979 4000 Fax: 0118 979 4035
Email: training@ptr.co.uk
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