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There are many excellent online courses. This has been hugely beneficial in my day to day work.
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- Louise Nolan
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UNIX Fundamentals
Course Aims
This course covers the competencies and skills identified as key to intending UNIX users and developers. The course aims are to give readers a good understanding of the UNIX operating system sufficient to meet the needs of application developers. Providing hands-on experience, on completion of the course the reader will be able to; understand the concepts underlying UNIX; use a variety of commands, tools and utilities; program the command interpreter (shell); understand the file system; and carry out basic text manipulation. |
Assumed Knowledge
Familiarity with basic computing and programming concepts is required as gained from working in a PC or mainframe environment. Knowledge of another operating system would be an advantage. Limited knowledge of UNIX gained in a user environment would be beneficial. |
Course Audience
Power users, programmers and developers working in a UNIX environment. Software and hardware engineers who need a grounding in the UNIX system. Systems Administrators who will work on UNIX systems. |
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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The History & Features of UNIX
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UNIX Standards
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The Structure of UNIX
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Accessing the System
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The UNIX Command
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Process Control
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Directory and File Commands
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pwd - print word directory
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Wild Cards - File Name Generation
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The vi Editor
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I/O Manipulation
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Standard Input and Output
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Input/Output Redirection/dev/null
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cat - concatenate and print
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lpstat - lineprinter status
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File Manipulation
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grep - global regular expression printer
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Communications
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