AUDIENCE:   Technical staff (support personnel, application developers, system integrators) requiring the basic skills necessary to interface effectively with UNIX based Open Systems. This course is suitable for most major vendor releases of UNIX, including AIX (up to 6.x), HP-UX, Sun Solaris, SCO UNIXWare. For those who will also be interfacing with the Linux Operating system (any flavour), this course is also of benefit. PREREQUISITES:   Delegates should be technical staff who have a moderate knowledge of another operating system. No prior experience with the UNIX operating system is required. DURATION:   3 days. Hands on. OBJECTIVES:   This course provides technical staff new to UNIX with a sound appreciation of the operating system. The course provides delegates with knowledge and confidence in the most useful UNIX tools and utilities. On completion, delegates will have a fundamental knowledge of the UNIX operating system and be able to use some of the more advanced UNIX facilities. Having gained suitable, complementary experience they can progress to further specialised training to establish peak effectiveness. COURSE CONTENT:   Welcome to the world of UNIX Why do Users choose UNIX? An Operating System The UNIX Operating System Components of the UNIX Operating System Organisation of a UNIX System The Kernel The Filesystem The Shell User Interfaces Terminal based interface The Command Processor Utilities Windows based Interfaces Using a Graphical Interface Distributed Environments and Client/Server Networking Logging On and Getting Help Logging On Accessing the UNIX Command Line Format of UNIX Commands Getting Help Internet Based Help Setting and Changing the Password Navigating the Filesystem Structure of a UNIX Filesystem Identifying Files and Directories Going up the Filesystem with Relative Addresses The Home Directory Where am I? Moving Around the Filesystem (cd) Listing Directory Contents Creating Directories Removing Directories Displaying Files Displaying File Contents Copying Files and Directories Moving and Renaming Files & Directories Removing Files Shell Facilities The Shell Environment Using Wildcards (Metacharacters) Default Action of the Shell Saving Output and Using File Input (Redirection) Bolting Commands Together Gluing Files Together (cat) Aliases Printing Formatting a file to be printed Print File Print Request Cancel Print Request Enable Printer Line Printer Status Information Editing Within Unix VI Editor Key Tricks vi Modes The vi Editor for Beginners Some Further Useful features Process Handling What is a Process? Interactive or Background? Process Fork / exec Process, Report Status Process, kill a Allocating Priority Logging out using Nohup Sequential Command Additional UNIX Commands Display Date Display a Calander Spell Checking Word Count Mail Usage Who is on the System Write to User Grep Regular Expressions UNIX Utilities The Find Utility Sort or merge Files sed UNIX Security File System Permissions Change mode Symbolic Notation Octal Notation Change owner Change group Default Creation Mode (umask) Backup and Restore Tar Utility Cpio Utility Pathname considerations for backup utilities The Shell Environment Shell Environment System Variables Shell Variables Assigning Variables Displaying Variable Values Exporting variables Shell Interpretation Using Quotes in the Shell The Back Quote The Single Quote The Double Quotes The Backslash Special Escape Characters Additional Korn Shell Facilities Shell Programming Shell Scripts Executing Shell Scripts Passing Arguments To A Program Positional Parameters Special Shell Parameters The Read Command GN08/01