Introduction to Solaris 2.X

Introduction to Solaris 2.X

3 Days course

Language: English

This course is only available on request!!

DESCRIPTION
This course teaches students how to use fundamental UNIX commands and basic Solaris commands.
Students will learn functions of the shell, file system navigation.
UNIX editors, file commands (including ls, cat, rm, mv, cp, and ln), additional commonly used commands (including grep, od and pr), as well as learning user communication tools such as mailx.
The course is supplemented with many hands-on exercises.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Log in and out of the system
Navigate through the UNIX file system
Manipulate files
File permissions
Use basic network commands
Search for file names and strings
Edit files using the 'vi' editor
Use shell productivity features
Use shell productivity features
Use the 'vi' editor
Use mailx to send mail

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
The course is intended for programmers and end users who are new to the Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.X Operating System

ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE
Some familiarity with an operating system such as DOS.

OUTLINES

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION (HISTORY)
1) Brief history of operating systems
2) Operating system concepts
3) Operating system features
4) UNIX history
5) Major UNIX flavors
6) Solaris features
7) Solaris components
8) Solaris characteristics
9) Standards
10) Application areas

CHAPTER 2: GETTING STARTED
1) Logging in and logging out
2) Using the shell
3) Command line formats
4) How to get help-man
5) The stty command

CHAPTER 3: GETTING TO KNOW THE SHELL
1) The shell as a user interface
2) The standard output file
3) Appending of the standard output file
4) The standard input file
5) Pipes
6) The standard error file
7) Summary of special I/O characters
8) Shell variables
9) Quoting mechanisms
10) Command substitution
11) The shell prompt variables
12) File name generation characters
13) Alias
14) Functions
15) The History Mechanism
16) Editing the command line

CHAPTER 4: THE FILE SYSTEM
1) User view of the file system
2) File types
3) File system concepts
4) The /etc/passwd file
5) Directory commands
6) File access permissions
7) Groups
8) The chmod command
9) Using the umask

CHAPTER 5: SOLARIS EDITORS
1) Solaris editors
2) Starting ed
3) Simple ed session
4) Format of ed commands
5) Another ed session
6) Summary of ed commands
7) Searching with ed
8) Substituting with ed
9) The vi editor
10) Editing an existing file
11) Adding text
12) Cursor movement commands
13) vi modes
14) Deleting text
15) Changing text
16) Copying and moving text
17) Searching for text
18) Last line mode
19) vi customization
20) Odds and ends

CHAPTER 6: FILE COMMANDS
1) Relative vs complete pathnames
2) The shell's search algorithm
3) The ls command - directory listing
4) The cat command - concatenate files
5) The rm command - remove files
6) The mv command - rename a file
7) The cp command - copy a file
8) The ln command - give file additional name
9) The cmp, diff commands - compare two files
10) The file command - determine file type
11) The pg command - page through a file
12) The find command - locate a file

CHAPTER 7: COMMONLY USED COMMANDS
1) The grep command - pattern matching
2) The wc command - word count
3) The sort command - sort lines of a file
4) The head command - display first few lines
5) The tail command - display last few lines
6) The tr command - translate characters
7) The cut command - cut fields (or chars)
8) The od command - octal dump a file
9) The paste command - paste lines together
10) The split command - split a file
11) The uniq command - report repeated lines
12) The lp command - print a file

CHAPTER 8: THE mailx COMMAND
1) The mailx command
2) Sending mail
3) Reading your mail
4) Commands within mail
5) Replying to mail
6) Tilde commands
7) mailx customization
8) Sending binary files
9) Decoding binary files
10) Sending directories

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