Using UNIX (4 days)

Designed for: Staff who will be working with a UNIX system

Primary Objective: To enable attendees to control jobs and data in a UNIX system

UNIX overview
Background and development of UNIX, various forms of UNIX, Open Systems, X/Window, multitasking, security;  hardware used on UNIX systems; disk usage, sections, shadowing, RAID, disk striping, disk cache, memory usage, shared segments, CD-ROM

File structure
File organisation, directories, paths, file security and permissions; database access; pwd, cd, home, .. and . directories, creating and removing directories; using absolute and relative path names; ls, cat, chmod commands

Editing and filtering
Using vi, ed, sed; using grep; using awk; sorting files

Running jobs and processes
Program development and execution; handling work: terminology, processes, daemons;  scheduler: CRON and its use;  ps command

Program and I/O terminology
How a program views files; filter, pipe, tee, redirection; standard input, standard output, standard error: <, >, >>, <<, |; the spooling system

Communications
Communications and connections to PC and mainframe; TCP/IP, LU 6.2, VT-100 emulation, File Transfer, TELNET, electronic mail; remote login; UNIX to UNIX communication; using the file transfer commands

Shells and scripts
Running routine tasks; shells, Korn, Bourne, C; scripts, sample scripts: backup, shutdown process; writing, testing, and debugging scripts

UNIX administration
Systems administration tasks, groups of users, adding users, terminals, disks, accounting; minimal rôle of operators and systems programmers.

UNIX, Scripts, INGRES

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