This is a hands-on, instructor-led Unix training course introducing the Unix or Linux operating system at the user level. Topics include command structure, the file system, file/directory manipulation, redirection and pipes, permissions, process control, account customization. Labs are designed to emphasize and reinforce material learned in class.

Overview of Unix

• Brief history
• Major standards vs. major shells
• Features
• Architecture

Using Unix

• Login/logout
• System prompts
• Command line syntax
• Some basic commands:
  • date
  • cal
  • who
  • hostname
  • uname
• Sending and receiving mail
• On-line documentation

File management

• Unix file structure
• Specifying filenames
• File management commands
• File Access
• Printing commands
• I/O redirection and pipes
• Links (hard and symbolic)

Text Editing

• vi
• emacs

The Unix Shell

• Responsibilities of the shell
• Redirection
• Filename expansion characters
• Processes
• The shell environment

Unix Utilities

• Counting words, characters and lines with wc
• Extracting the first and last parts of files with head and tail
• Sorting
• Matching text patterns with regular expressions
• Searching for text with grep
• Locating files with find
• Batch mode text editing with sed
• Compression and archiving utilities