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UNIX is a highly reliable multiuser, multitasking operating system for environments ranging from mission-critical clusters and servers to workstations and desktops. It has become the operating system of choice for servers on the Internet. In this course, you gain the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to take full advantage of this powerful and flexible system. UNIX is a multi-user, multitasking operating system designed for applications that demand exceptionally powerful or robust environments. It is frequently used as a server platform, hosting large, mission-critical applications such as corporate databases, enterprise resource planning systems and customer relationship management.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the UNIX operating system family and lays the foundation for taking the next step toward becoming an effective system, network or database administrator on a UNIX platform. You learn to navigate the directory hierarchy, manipulate files, access a UNIX server from MS Windows, utilize shells and filters, write and run simple shell scripts, and perform some basic administration tasks.

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

· Manage data, execute commands and customize your environment

· Navigate the UNIX directory hierarchy, manipulate files and control file access

· Interact with and customize the KornShell

· Extract and process information with filters and pipes

· Develop shell scripts to simplify and automate frequent tasks

· Learn how to make, remove and navigate directories

· Learn how to change file access permissions

· Learn how to search, sort and restructure data with commands

· Learn how to create and execute shell scripts

· Learn how to securely copy data across a network

· Learn how to launch and terminate background jobs

User and application support specialists, software developers and those working toward becoming an effective system, network or database administrator on the UNIX platform, programmers, system administrators, application support specialists, help desk personnel, and other "power users" who need a solid background in the UNIX system

The Command Line Interface

· Role of the shell

· Command format and syntax

Browsing Online Documentation

· Displaying man pages

· Accessing web reference sources

Essential File Housekeeping Tools

· Copying: cp

· Renaming: mv

· Removing: rm

· Linking: ln, Editing: vi

· Printing: lp, lpr

Displaying and Interpreting File Attributes

Establishing Access Permissions with CHMOD

The UNIX Directory Hierarchy

· Home, current and parent directories

· Root directory and subdirectories

Maintaining Directories

· Changing directory with CD

· Making and removing directories

Locating Files with Find

Command history facility

Employing KornShell Tips and Tricks

Personalizing Your Shell

· Defining command aliases

· Updating the start-up scripts

· Setting shell variables and options

Logging into a Remote Server

· Secure Shell

· PuTTY

· Telnet

· Cygwin

· Others

Uploading and Downloading Files

· Secure FTP

· Scp

· FTP

· WinSCP

· Others

The UNIX Tool-Building Philosophy

· Filtering data streams through pipelines

· Redirecting standard input, output and error streams

Extracting and Restructuring Data

· Searching: GREP

· Sorting: sort

· Editing: SED

· Trimming: head and tail

· Selecting: AWK

· Counting: WC

Matching Patterns with Regular Expressions

· Metacharacter examples with GREP

· Substituting patterns with SED

· Refining selections with AWK

Writing a Simple Script

· Storing commands in a file

· Marking the file executable

Controlling Flow of Execution

· Iterating through loops with for and while

· Testing conditions with if/else

· Choosing alternatives with case

· Measuring disk space usage

· Initiating and terminating daemons