| What is Unix? |
Unix Architecture Overview |
 |
Aims of course |
|
The Unix Industry |
|
Evolution of UNIX Technologies and Standards |
|
Development and Significance of 'C' |
|
Present adoption of UNIX technologies |
|
Future Roles for UNIX and Solaris based systems |
|
Solaris - 'The Truth' and where it fits into the Unix Industry |
|
|
Kernel Structure |
|
Multi-Process Parent/Child Architecture |
|
Hierarchical File Systems |
|
Machine Independent & Device Independent IO |
|
Software Portability and Binary Compatibility |
|
Networking Standards and Protocols - TCP/IP, NFS |
|
Standard Utilities, Flexibility |
|
| Getting Started |
UNIX File System |
|
Accessing Unix |
|
GUI and Character based interfaces |
|
Logging in |
|
Password and Account Control |
|
Message of the Day |
|
Using the UNIX System |
|
Changing your Password |
|
Error Correction |
|
Erasing Characters |
|
Terminal Configuration |
|
Communicating interactively with other users |
|
Unix mail utility |
|
Exiting the UNIX System |
|
|
Structure & Tour through the File System
/bin /usr /etc /dev /lib /var |
|
Files & Directories |
|
File Naming Conventions |
|
Directory Manipulation, Changing, Listing Contents |
|
Creating & Removing Directories |
|
Pathnames: Absolute & Relative Pathnames |
|
Copy, View, Print, and Remove files: cp, cat, more, lp, rm |
|
Moving & Renaming Files: mv, mvdir |
|
Multiple Links and Symbolic Links (i.e. shortcuts) |
|
File System Security and Permissions |
|
Changing Permissions: chown, chgrp, chmod |
|
Octal Values, Default Permissions umask |
|
| Text Manipulation |
I/O Redirection |
|
Utilities for Filtering Text: cat, grep, awk, cut |
|
Counting Lines, Words, and bytes - wc |
|
Finding Files - find |
|
Performing actions iteratively on entire directory trees |
|
Sorting & Searching Text: sort, grep |
|
Head & Tail command |
|
File Comparison |
|
|
Concept of Standard Input, Output & Errorstdin, stdout, stderr |
|
Redirecting screen Output of a Unix process |
|
Redirecting keyboard Input of a Unix process |
|
Diverting Error messages from Unix processes |
|
Using pipes to redirect output from one process to the input of another |
|
| The VI Editor |
The UNIX Shell |
|
Why you still need to use VI in the 21st century? |
|
Invoking VI3 VI Modes: Command, Insert, Ed |
|
Moving the around a text file: line, page, line no, bookmarks, cursor |
|
Pattern Searching |
|
Inserting, Replacing, Deleting, Moving Text |
|
Undoing Changes |
|
Joining Lines |
|
Using Ed Commands |
|
Search & Replace |
|
Executing UNIX Shell commands from within VI |
|
Configuring VI default start-up Settings |
|
Keep it simple - The only 20 useful keystrokes you need |
|
|
Overview of the Unix Shell |
|
A command line interpreter |
|
Much more powerful then 'command.com' |
|
3 popular shell variations: sh, ksh and bash, Bourn, Korn and Born Again Shells |
|
Starting and exiting the Shell |
|
Environment variables and Shell Variables: env, set, export |
|
Understanding Parent child process relationships |
|
How a command line is processed and interpreted |
|
Filename Substitution using wildcards '*' and '?'I/O Redirection |
|
How the shell pre-processes complex commands |
|
Job Control, History & Alias |
|
Recalling, Searching for and editing previous commands |
|
| Introduction to Shell scripting |
|
|
The Korn/Bourne Shell as a Tool & as a Program |
|
The Shell as a Programming Language |
|
Programming Constructs |
|
Getting User Input |
|
Special Shell Variables |
|
Command Line Arguments |
|
Shell and process exit status |
|
Testing the exit status of a Unix process or a shell script |
|
The if statement |
|
Numeric and text expressions using 'test' and '[' commands |
|
The case Statement |
|
The while Loop |
|
The for Loop |
|
Commenting Code |
|
|
