General computer literacy.

Audience

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

• Prepare for our HP-UX system administration and software development courses

• Learn to use your UNIX system effectively and save time by automating tasks with shell programs

• Customize your UNIX system to meet your individual needs

• Learn how to use the full capabilities of your system through hands-on lab exercises

Benefits to you

• Build your UNIX knowledge and command skills
• Increase your productivity

Introduction to UNIX 

• UNIX structure and capability overview
• UNIX history and standards

Logging In and General Orientation 

• Logging in and out
• Viewing online man pages
• Executing basic UNIX commands

Navigating the File System

• UNIX file system layout concepts
• Absolute and relative pathname concepts
• Navigating and viewing directories
• Creating and removing directories
• Searching directories

Managing Files

• File concepts and characteristics
• Viewing and managing files
• Printing files

File Permissions and Access

• UNIX file permission concepts
• Managing file permissions
• Managing other attributes with chgrp, chown, and touch
• Changing user and group identities

Introduction to the vi Editor

• Editing files with vi editor

Shell Basics

• Shell features and types
• Using command aliasing
• Using command line recall and editing
• Modifying TERM, PATH, and other environment variables

Shell Advanced Features

• Shell substitution capabilities
• Set and modify shell variables
• Transfer local variables to the environment
• Make variables available to subprocesses
• How a process is created

File Name Generation

• File name generation character concepts
• File name generation characters: ?, [], and *

Quoting

• Quoting concepts and characters

Input and Output Redirection

• Redirecting standard input, standard output, and standard error
• Using sort, wc, and grep filters

Pipes

• Shell pipeline concepts
• Using tee, cut, tr, more, and pr filters

Using Network Services

• Local Area Networks (LANs)
• Hostnames
• Testing connectivity
• ARPA services
• Berkeley services
• Secure shell Services

Process Control

• Process overview
• Listing processes
• Starting processes in the background
• Moving jobs to the background and foreground
• Prioritizing and scheduling processes
• Terminating processes

Introduction to Shell Programming

• Writing simple shell programs
• Using environment variables in shell scripts
• Using positional parameters in shell scripts
• Using read in shell scripts

Shell Programming - Branches

• Using if and case constructs for conditional branching
• Using and generating return codes
• Using string, integer, and file tests

Shell Programming - Loops

• Performing arithmetic in the shell
• Shell script while loops
• Shell script until loops!Shell script for loops

Offline File Storage

• Creating and using tar archives
• Creating and using cpio archives