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
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
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
