UNIX Fundamentals

Overview: This course concentrates on the UNIX operating system, its concepts and facilities for data processing, software development and database applications. Hands-on exercises throughout the course help the students master the basics of vi editing, shell programming and a great range of commands and utilities. This course provides a solid foundation for those who become power users, software developers or system administrators.

Course Length: 5 days

Prerequisites: Experience with other computer operating systems.

Course Topics:

• Introduction to the UNIX Operating System
• The Shell - Starting a Session
• User-to-User Communication
• vi Editor
• Basic Utilities
• Directories and Files
• Access Permissions
• Using the Shell
• Manipulating Text Files
• Sorting Text Files
• Regular Expressions using grep and awk
• Bourne/Korn/C Shell Programming
• Working with a Printer
• The Find Command
• Controlling the Execution of UNIX Commands
• Executing Commands at a Later Date and Time
• Optional:
     R Commands
     File Transfer Protocol - FTP
     Telnet