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This hands-on course teaches the fundamentals of the UNIX operating system from a new user's point of view, and lays the foundation for all future Unix courses. In this introductory course you will learn several standalone and network UNIX commands, the structure of the operating system, the file system, and the jargon. You will also get a strong feel for UNIX's powerful features and will learn where to turn for help by using UNIX's rich electronic help utility. Ample lab exercises provide an excellent complement to the lecture material.
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Topics Covered:
- Logging in and practicing with the interface
- Basic commands
- The big picture
- Data organization
- Frequently-used commands
- The user environment
- File security and communication
- File manipulation
- Data manipulation
- The vi text editor
- Networking and file transfer utilities
- Customizing your environment
- Command interpretation: the shell
Prerequisites:
This course is intended for:
- Novice UNIX users who wish to become self-sufficient using UNIX commands to perform tasks on their UNIX workstations
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Programmers, maintenance personnel, and novice system administrators who have previous experience with computers, but not necessarily UNIX
Audience:
This course is the foundation for everyone that needs to understand the basics of UNIX. Some end users will need no instruction in UNIX beyond this course. Other end users (e.g. UNIX system administrators and UNIX programmers) need this course as a foundation.
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Course Benefits:
Short-term, the student will be immediately productive within the UNIX environment, and have a feeling of comfort and confidence in using UNIX commands to operate on program and data files.
Long-term, the student will be able to solve problems within the UNIX framework, and will be self-sufficient in gaining further knowledge of UNIX as it becomes necessary.
Materials Furnished:
- Student Manual
- Learning the UNIX Operating System (O'Reilly & Associates)
Recommended Follow-On Course:
- Intermediate Unix and Shell Scripting
Course Length: Three Days
List Price: $1200 |
