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Introduction to AIX
| Duration: 3 days |
| Participants: Technical and non-technical personnel, including technical managers, programmers, system and network administrators. |
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Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:
- Organize and protect your own file and directory structure. - Create and modify files using the vi editor. - Select lines from files using the grep command and RE metacharacters. - Direct file input and output from/to the proper file or process using redirection and pipes. - Control the execution of foreground and background jobs. - Use shell command line features such as filename generation wildcards to perform work in an efficient manner. - Tailor the interactive environment by using aliases and variables established in .profile and the ksh ENV file. |
| Overview: This course provides a detailed introduction to AIX. It is designed for those who need a robust understanding of AIX. |
| Prerequisites: None. |
| Format: Lecture and discussion (50%) with hands-on exercises (50%). |
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Topic Outline:
- Introductory Concepts and Simple Commands Login and logoff, passwd, ignoreeof Command line format Interrupt characters Metacharacters and backslash, single and double quotes date, who, echo, ls, banner, cal, man - File System File system structure Types of AIX files: ordinary, special, directory, links Full and relative pathnames pwd, ls options -lpadiR, cd HOME directory File permission modes, chmod, umask mkdir, rmdir, rm, mv, cp - File Processing Commands cat, more, nl, wc, grep, sort, cut, tr - vi Editor - Re Metacharacters with grep, pg, and vi - Shell Features Requested on the Command Line Redirection of standard input, standard output, and standard error Pipelines Process and job control: ps, jobs, kill, wait, nohup, sleep, fg, and bg Filename generation wildcards with * ? [ ] [! ] and dot files - Shell Environment Environment variables: TERM, HOME, PATH, LOGNAME, USER, PS1, PS2 set and env profile and the ksh ENV file - Korn Shell Features Command history, editing, and re-execution Options such as ignoreeof and vi Aliases |
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