INTRODUCTION TO UNIX

This course is an introduction to the UNIX operating system, commands and utilities. Students will learn basic commands, shell programming and simple file management. Labs and notes included.

Length: 3 days (9am-4pm)

Price: $1250

Dates: Sept 23-25 – (Mon-Wed)

Prerequisite: None

Code: 6316

To enroll by phone call 1-800-345-9472

To enroll by fax 1-815-753-6900

Schedule:

Day 1 morning

• Objectives and overview
• References and recommended reading
• Brief history of UNIX
• Logging in/logging out
• Changing your password
• Mail and pine (email utilities)
• Online manual

Day 1 afternoon

• Directory and file structure
• cd, mkdir, rm, rmdir, mv
• File permission, chmod/umask

Day 2 morning

• Commands continued
• Ls, who
• more, less, cat, head, tail
• ln, wc, w,clear, finger, date
• whereis, which

Day 2 afternoon

• file manipulating
• editors – vi and pico
• tr, find, comm., cmp, diff, uniq, sort, cut

Day3 morning and afternoon

• shell programming and aliases
• c-shell aliases
• .cshrc, login, .logout
• shell and environment variables
• examples

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