WA1011 Fundamentals of UNIX Course Outline

WA1011 Fundamentals of UNIX Course Outline

1. A THING CALLED UNIX
	What is It? Components of a UNIX System A Brief History of UNIX Where Do You Find It?

2. LEARNING THE ROPES
	Logging On Changing Your Password Logging Out Getting Around in UNIX Command Line Syntax Special Keys and Control Characters Filenames Listing Files Identifying the File Type Viewing Files Using cat and more Using the Online Manual Pages Listing Active Users with who Reading the Unix Clock with Date Creating Files with touch Filename Expansions Using Wildcards

3. FILE SYSTEM CONCEPTS
	Absolute Pathnames Relative Pathnames Current and Home Directories Changing Directories with cd Creating Directories with mkdir Removing Directories

4. BASIC COMMANDS
	Printing Files with lp Copying Filos with cp Moving and Renaming Files with mv Linking Files with ln Removing Files with rm Sorting File Contents with sort Using tr to Translate Characters Searching Files with grep Locating Files with find Counting Words with wc

5. VI
	vi Overview Starting and Stopping vi Moving Through a File Adding Text Making Corrections Cutting and Pasting Text

6. FILE PERMISSIONS
	Listing File Permissions Who Gets Permissions? File Permissions Directory Permissions Changing Permissions Using chmod Setting Default Permissions

7. THE KORN SHELL
	Command History Command Line Editing Alias Filename Completion

8. UNIX ENVIRONMENT
	Listing Processes with ps Filehandles Redirecting stdin Redirecting stdout Redirecting stderr Pipes tee