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| Monday 11 June 2012 | StayAhead | London | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Save £107.50 | £967.50+VAT | |
| Monday 11 June 2012 | StayAhead | Edinburgh | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Save £107.50 | £967.50+VAT | |
| Monday 09 July 2012 | StayAhead | London | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Save £107.50 | £967.50+VAT | |
| Monday 23 July 2012 | StayAhead | Leeds | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Save £107.50 | £967.50+VAT | |
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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.
- There are no formal pre-requisites, although an understanding of and exposure to information technology is advantageous.
- Anyone who needs to understand and use the UNIX Operating System.
- To provide the skills needed to work productively in the UNIX environment.
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
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 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.
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