Follow Us :

Book your UNIX Introduction Training Course

Share :

This three day course is being run 23 times between Monday 28th May 2012 and Monday 10th December 2012 in Manchester, London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Bristol, Birmingham,

Book this course with us today from as little as £967.50 + VAT and with our price guarantee you can be confident of getting great value. Our team of experienced independent booking administrators will make the joining process painless and by providing feedback on your experiences you’ll also influence the Coursebookers independent course ratings.

Sorry no downloadable outline found.

Expert Help

If you would like
advice, or to book, call
one of our experts on
01920 460232

Open: 9am - 5:30pm
Monday- Friday

Locations/dates for this course
DateProviderLocationRatingPrice
Monday 28 May 2012StayAheadManchesterSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 11 June 2012StayAheadLondonSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 11 June 2012StayAheadEdinburghSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 09 July 2012StayAheadLondonSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 23 July 2012StayAheadLeedsSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 23 July 2012StayAheadBristolSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 30 July 2012StayAheadLondonSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 30 July 2012StayAheadManchesterSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 06 August 2012StayAheadBirminghamSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 20 August 2012StayAheadLondonSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 03 September 2012StayAheadEdinburghSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 17 September 2012StayAheadManchesterSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 17 September 2012StayAheadLondonSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 24 September 2012StayAheadBristolSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 24 September 2012StayAheadLeedsSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 15 October 2012StayAheadLondonSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 05 November 2012StayAheadBirminghamSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 12 November 2012StayAheadLondonSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 12 November 2012StayAheadManchesterSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 19 November 2012StayAheadEdinburghSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 26 November 2012StayAheadBristolSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 26 November 2012StayAheadLeedsSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Monday 10 December 2012StayAheadLondonSave £107.50£967.50+VAT
Course
Provider
Location
Date
Places
Price
UNIX Introduction
 
 
 
 
 


Book your course now with Coursebookers!

Making an enquiry to Coursebookers couldn't be easier, just fill out the form to the left or call 01920 460232 and our team will be in touch within 48 hours.

Remember:

  • Not only are we great value, we can also boast no booking fees
  • Human administrators make booking & coordination simple and painless
  • Coursebookers is vendor neutral we can offer unbiased and independent advice
  • If you have complex booking requirements we're happy to help! Call our team on 01920 460232 to discuss your needs
  • We ensure all our courses meet our high standards, meaning you'll only ever see "the best of the best" on Coursebookers!

Summary: 

This course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the UNIX Operating System. The most commonly used commands and utilities are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced.

PreRequisites: 

  • There are no formal pre-requisites, although an understanding of and exposure to information technology is advantageous.

Audience: 

  • Anyone who needs to understand and use the UNIX Operating System.

Objectives: 

  • To provide the skills needed to work productively in the UNIX environment.

Outline: 

Course Contents - DAY 1

  • Course Introduction
  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM

  • 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

Session 2: BASIC COMMANDS

  • Command line syntax
  • Basic file handling commands
  • Basic Directory handling commands
  • Filename wildcard characters
  • Exercise: Manipulating files and directories

Session 3: REDIRECTION AND PIPES

  • Input redirection
  • Output redirection
  • Pipes
  • Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 4:INTRODUCTION TO THE vi EDITOR

  • 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

Session 5 : SEARCHING AND REPLACING TEXT

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

Session 6: RECALLING AND EDITING COMMANDS

  • Overview
  • The bash shell
  • The korn shell
  • Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands

Session 7: FILE PERMISSIONS AND ACCESS CONTROL

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

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 8: PROCESSES

  • What is a process?
  • Monitoring processes
  • Killing processes
  • Background processes
  • Job Control
  • Grouping commands
  • Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes

Session 9: MORE BASIC COMMANDS

  • The wc (word count) command
  • The find command
  • The cut command
  • The sort command
  • The finger command
  • Exercise: Using file handling commands

Session 10: THE USER ENVIRONMENT

  • Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
  • Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
  • Exercise: Setting up an environment

Description: 

This course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the UNIX Operating System. The most commonly used commands and utilities are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities.

StayAhead

StayAhead training has been offering high quality IT technical training courses since 1992. They specialise in UNIX, Oracle, Linux and MySQL training and pride themselves on the long term investments they put into attending delegates.
StayAhead has gained a reputation for offering high quality courses and is ranked as one of the UK’s top 50 business organisations in 2008.