AUDIENCE:   Technical staff (support personnel, application developers, system integrators) requiring the basic skills necessary to interface effectively with UNIX based Open Systems. This course is suitable for most major vendor releases of UNIX, including AIX Version 4.x, & 5, HP-UX Versions 10 and 11, Sun Solaris Version 2.x, 7 & 8, UNIXWare and Sequent Dynix. PREREQUISITES:   Delegates should be technical staff who has a moderate knowledge of another operating system. No prior experience with the UNIX operating system is required. DURATION:   3 Days. OBJECTIVES:   This course provides technical staff new to UNIX with a sound appreciation of the operating system. The course provides delegates with knowledge and confidence in the most useful UNIX tools and utilities. On completion, delegates will have a fundamental knowledge of the UNIX operating system and be able to use some of the more advanced UNIX facilities. Having gained suitable, complementary experience they can progress to further specialised training to establish peak effectiveness. COURSE CONTENT:   Welcome to the World of UNIX. Why do users choose UNIX? An operating system. The UNIX operating system. Components of the UNIX Operating System. Organisation of a UNIX system. The Kernel. The Filesystem. The Shell. User Interfaces. Terminal based interface. The command processor. Utilities. Windows based interfaces. Using a graphical interface. Distributed environments and Client/Server. Networking. Logging On and Getting Help. Logging on. Accessing the UNIX command line. Format of UNIX commands. Getting help. Internet based help. Setting and changing the password. Navigating the Filesystem. Structure of a UNIX filesystem. Identifying files and directories. Absolute and relative addresses. The home directory. Where am I (pwd). Moving around the filesystem (cd). Listing directory contents (ls). Creating directories (mkdir). Removing directories (rmdir). Displaying files (file). Displaying file contents (more). Copying files and directories (cp). Moving and renaming files & directories (mv). Removing files (rm). Shell Facilities. The Shell environment. Using wildcards. Default action of the Shell. Saving output and using file input (Redirection). Bolting commands together (Piping). Gluing files together (cat). Aliases. Printing. Print file. Print request. Cancel print request. Enable printer. Line printer status information. Editing Within Unix. VI editor. Key tricks. vi modes. The vi editor for beginners. Some further useful features. Process Handling. What is a Process? Interactive or background? Process fork. Process, report status. Process, kill a. Allocating priority. Logging out using nohup. Sequential command lines. Additional UNIX Commands. Display date. Display a calendar. Spell checking. Word count. Grep. Regular expressions. User communications. Mail usage. Mail disposition options. Who is on the System. Write to User. UNIX Utilities. The Find Utility. Sort or merge files. sed. UNIX Security. File system permissions. Change mode. Symbolic notation. Octal notation. Change owner. Change group. Default creation mode (umask). Backup and restore. Cpio utility. Tar utility. Pathname considerations. The Shell Environment. Shell environment. System variables. Shell variables. Assigning variables. Displaying variables values. Exporting variables. Shell interpretation. Using quotes in the Shell. The Back quote. The Single quote. The Double quotes. The Backslash. Special escape characters. Additional Korn Shell facilities. Shell Programming. Shell scripts. Executing Shell scripts. Passing arguments to a program. Positional parameters. Special Shell parameters. The Read command.