Introduction to UNIX Training

Introduction to UNIX Course Outline

• Interacting with UNIX

  The command-line interface

  • Role of the shell
  • Command format and syntax

  Browsing online documentation

  • Displaying man pages
  • Accessing web reference sources

• Managing Files

  Essential file housekeeping tools

  • Copying: cp
  • Renaming: mv
  • Removing: rm
  • Linking: ln
  • Editing: vi
  • Printing: lp, lpr

  Displaying and interpreting file attributes

  • Listing files with ls and ls -l
  • Identifying file type, owner, group, size, modification time and index number

  Establishing access permissions with chmod

  • Symbolic notation
  • Octal notation

• Navigating Directories

  The UNIX directory hierarchy

  • Home, current and parent directories
  • Root directory and subdirectories

  Maintaining directories

  • Changing directory with cd
  • Making and removing directories

  Locating files with find

  • Searching using file attributes
  • Operating on found files

• Working with the KornShell

  Command history facility

  • Listing past commands
  • Recalling and editing a previous command

  Employing KornShell tips and tricks

  • Filename "wildcards": * , ? , [ ]

  Personalising your shell

  • Defining command aliases
  • Updating the start-up scripts
  • Setting shell variables and options

• Accessing UNIX Servers from UNIX and Windows

  Logging into a remote server

  • Secure Shell
  • PuTTY
  • Telnet
  • Cygwin
  • Others

  Uploading and downloading files

  • Secure FTP
  • scp
  • FTP
  • WinSCP
  • Others

• Taming Information with Filters

  The UNIX tool-building philosophy

  • Filtering data streams through pipelines
  • Redirecting standard input, output and error streams

  Extracting and restructuring data

  • Searching: grep
  • Sorting: sort
  • Editing: sed
  • Trimming: head and tail
  • Selecting: awk
  • Counting: wc

  Matching patterns with regular expressions

  • Metacharacter examples with grep
  • Substituting patterns with sed
  • Refining selections with awk

• Developing and Executing Scripts

  Writing a simple script

  • Storing commands in a file
  • Marking the file executable

  Controlling flow of execution

  • Iterating through loops with for and while
  • Testing conditions with if/else
  • Choosing alternatives with case
  • Measuring disk space usage
  • Initiating and terminating daemons