UNIX / LINUX Course – Fundamentals

Is it right for me?

This course expects no prior knowledge of Unix or Linux. Delegates must be computer literate and familiar with the basic usage of an operating system.

This course provides delegates with a hands-on introduction to the Unix and Linux environment. The skills learnt can be applied to all commercial Unix flavours (e.g. Solaris, HPUX) and Linux flavours (e.g. Red Hat, SuSE, Debian). Extensive classroom exercises will enable you to gain the knowledge and skills to work effectively with the Unix/Linux platform and adapt the environment to your particular needs.

What will I get out of it?

By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• Explain the Unix/Linux relationship and architecture of different systems
• Use the filesystem to manage directories and files
• Search for files and directories
• Control access to files and directories
• Use text editors
• Use redirection pipes and filters
• Manage the shell environment

What does it cover?

Overview

• History
• Flavours and versions
• Architecture of Unix
• Files and Directories

The user interface (UI)

• Text-only access
• Graphical interfaces (CDE, Gnome, KDE)
• Logging in and out
• Changing passwords

Using the command line

• Command line syntax
• Simple commands
• Multiple commands
• Control characters
• Manual pages and finding help

Viewing directories and files

• Navigating the directory structure
• Displaying directory contents
• Viewing file attributes
• Viewing file contents

Managing directory contents

• Copying and moving files and directories
• Creating and renaming files and directories
• Removing files and directories
• Symbolic links

Searching files and directories

• Matching patterns in file contents
• grep, fgrep and egrep
• Searching for files and directories

Text editors

• Opening existing and new files
• Edit and save files
• Modify preferences

Basic permissions

• Permission categories
• Display permissions and permission types
• Changing permissions (symbolic and absolute)
• Default permissions

Redirection, pipes and filters

• Redirecting output and errors
• Using pipes to join commands
• Filter commands

Shell environment

• Shell metacharacters
• Filename completion
• Quotes
• Shell history
• Shell initialisation files

Process management

• Viewing processes
• Background processes
• Killing

Compression and archives

• Compressing files and directories
• Creating and restoring archives