Opleiding: English Delivery Only: HP-UX Introduction [STA_HI]

OVERVIEW

*** Course delivered in English (UK) ***

HP-UX Introduction Course Overview

This Hewlett Packard HP-UX Operating System training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the HP-UX Operating System. The most commonly used commands and utilities are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities.

The course discusses the mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

OBJECTIVES

Course Objectives

To provide the skills needed to work productively in the HP-UX environment.

AUDIENCE

Who will the Course Benefit?

Anyone who needs to understand and use the HP-UX Operating System.

There are no formal pre-requisites,although an understanding of and exposure to information technology is advantageous.

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Further Learning

• HP-UX Shell Programming
• Oracle SQL
• Linux Networking

CONTENT

HP-UX Introduction Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE HP-UX OPERATING SYSTEM

• A brief history of UNIX / Linux
• The UNIX / Linux kernel
• The UNIX / Linux file system structure
• File and directory management commands
• Absolute vs Relative Pathnames
• Further basic commands
• Exercise: Navigating the file system

Session 2: BASIC COMMANDS

• Command line syntax
• Basic file handling commands
• Basic Directory handling commands
• Filename wildcard characters
• Using commands with logical AND and OR
• Sequential command execution
• Exercise: Manipulating files and directories

Session 3: REDIRECTION AND PIPES

• Input and Output redirection
• Redirecting errors
• Piping commands
• Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities

HP-UX Introduction Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi/Vim EDITOR

• Overview of the vi/Vim editor
• The language of vi
• Undoing and Redoing changes
• Input Mode and Last Line Mode
• Further vi functions
• Executing commands within vi / Vim
• Customising the vi / Vim Environment
• Getting Help
• Exercises: Using the vi editor

Session 5: SEARCHING AND REPLACING TEXT

• Searching and replacing text using the vi/Vim editor
• Using regular expressions (regex)
• Using sed for search and replace
• Searching for text with grep,egrep and fgrep
• Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text

Session 6: RECALLING AND EDITING COMMANDS

• Overview
• The bash shell
• The korn shell
• Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands

Session 7: FILE PERMISSIONS AND ACCESS CONTROL

• Users and user groups
• File access permissions
• Changing file attributes
• Switching users and user groups
• Linking files
• Exercise: Setting and access permissions

HP-UX Introduction Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 8: FILTERING AND FORMATTING TEXT

• Overview
• The paste command
• The cut command
• An introduction to awk
• The nl command
• Exercises: Filtering Text

Session 9: PROCESSES

• What is a process?
• Monitoring processes
• Killing processes
• Background processes
• Job Control
• Grouping commands
• Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes

Session 10: THE USER ENVIRONMENT

• Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
• Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
• Exercise: Setting up an environment

Session 11: MORE BASIC COMMANDS

• The find command
• Using xargs command
• The locate command
• The df command
• The cut command
• The sort command
• Finding duplicate content
• Number sequencing
• Exercise: More Basic Commands