Description

This course acquaints new users to the Unix environment, the Korn Shell, and text editing. Multiple exercises reinforce the concepts.

Audience

Technical and non-technical personnel, including technical managers, programmers, and system and network administrators who need a robust understanding of Unix.

Prerequisite

None.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• create, list, manipulate, and set permission modes for files and directories
• describe the relationship between the shell and the editor
• use the vi editor to create and modify files
• use regular statements and their special characters to edit files
• issue shell commands using pipelines and background processing
• establish a shell environment using special shell variables and the file named "profile"
• use escape and quoting mechanisms in the shell and text editor