hP UNIX fundamentals

By attending HP UNIX Fundamentals workshop, Participants will learn to:

  • Use UNIX system effectively by automating tasks with shell programs
  • Customize UNIX system to meet individual needs
  • Use the full capabilities of your system

In HP UNIX Fundamentals training course, Participants will learn how to use its many commands and utilities. You will learn the standard UNIX system file editor and basic shell programming.

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

COURSE AGENDA

  • UNIX File system layout concepts
  • Absolute and relative pathname concepts
  • Navigating and viewing directories with CD, PWD, and lS
  • Creating and removing directories with mkdir and rmdir
  • Searching directories with find
  • Logging in and logging out
  • Viewing online man pages
  • Executing basic UNIX commands
  • UNIX structure and capability
  • UNIX history
  • UNIX standards
  • File concepts
  • File characteristics
  • Viewing files with cat, more, head, and tail
  • Printing files with lp, lpstat, and cancel
  • Managing files with cp, mv, ln, and rm
  • UNIX file permission concepts
  • Managing file permissions with chmod and umask
  • Managing other attributes with chgrp, chown, and touch
  • Changing user and group identities with su and chgrp
  • Editing files
  • Shell features
  • Shell types
  • Using command aliasing
  • Using command line recall and editing
  • Modifying TERM, PATH, and other environment variables
  • Local and environment variables
  • Variable substitution
  • Alias substitution
  • Command substitution
  • Tilde substitution
  • File name generation character concepts
  • File name generation characters:
  • ?
  • []
  • *
  • Quoting concepts
  • Quoting characters: ,", '
  • Redirecting standard input, standard output, and standard error
  • Using sort, wc, and grep filters
  • Shell pipeline concepts
  • Using tee, cut, tr, more, and pr filters
  • Local Area Networks (LANs)
  • Hostnames
  • Testing connectivity: ping
  • ARPA services: telnet, ftp
  • Berkeley services: rlogin, remsh, rcp
  • Secure shell services: ssh, scp, sftp
  • Listing processes with ps
  • Starting processes in the background with "&"
  • Starting processes in the background with nohup
  • Moving jobs to the background and foreground with bg and fg
  • Prioritizing processes with nice
  • Terminating processes with signals
  • Terminating processes with kill
  • Scheduling processes with cron and crontab
  • Scheduling processes with at
  • Writing simple shell programs
  • Using environment variables in shell scripts
  • Using positional parameters in shell scripts
  • Using read in shell scripts
  • Using if and case constructs for conditional branching
  • Using and generating return codes
  • Using string, integer, and file tests
  • Performing arithmetic in the shell
  • Shell script while loops
  • Shell script until loops
  • Shell script for loops
  • Creating and using tar archives
  • Creating and using cpio archives