AIX Fundamentals

Skills Gained

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

• The history of the UNIX and Linux operating systems
• Navigating and creating files and directories within the UNIX filesystem
• Navigating and searching manual pages
• Structuring commands
• File and directory management commands
• Shell redirection and pipe facilities
• Editing text files using the vi / Vim editor
• Customising the vi / Vim environment
• Searching and replacing text and regular expressions (regex)
• Recalling and editing commands with the Bash and Korn Shell
• Setting and changing file and directory permissions
• Creating hard and symbolic links
• Filtering and formatting text
• Monitoring and killing processes and process priorities
• Configuring the Shell environment and variables
• The find and locate commands
• Further basic commands
• Script naming conventions, locations and best practises
• Writing simple scripts to enhance basic command output
• Using the various shell quoting mechanisms
• Manipulating shell variables and user-defined variables
• Performing arithmetic within scripts
• Script interaction and arguments
• Implementing conditional execution facilities
• Iteration with constructs
• Performing multi-branch decisions
• Implementing AWK within scripts
• Trapping user interrupts
• User defined Functions
• Creating menu-driven scripts

Examinations

N/A

Requirements

There are no formal pre-requisites for this course, although an understanding of and exposure to information technology and an understanding of operating systems is required.