51434S UNIX Fundamentals

Summary

This course is an extensive introduction to the UNIX operating system and how to use its many commands and utilities. It also covers the standard UNIX system file editor and basic shell programming. This course is the foundation and prerequisite for most other courses in HP Education's Tru64 and HP-UX curricula. This course is 60 percent lecture and 40 percent hands-on labs using HP servers.

Prerequisites

General computer literacy

Duration

5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience

System administrators, network administrators, software developers, programmers, operators, and technical users

Topics

• Introduction to UNIX
• Logging in and general orientation
• Navigating the file system
• Managing Files
• File permissions and access
• Introduction to the vi editor
• Shell basics
• Shell advanced features
• File name generation
• Quoting
• Input and output redirection
• Pipes
• Network services
• Process management
• Introduction to shell programming
• Shell programming branches
• Shell programming loops
• Offline file storage