HP-UX Fundamentals
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Prerequisites:
An understanding of IT is required.Course Description:
This course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the HP-UX Operating System. The most commonly used commands are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced.
The course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing shellscripts. Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures.
The delegates will practise:
- Creating, copying, renaming, moving and deleting file…
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Prerequisites:
An understanding of IT is required.Course Description:
This course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the HP-UX Operating System. The most commonly used commands are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced.
The course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing shellscripts. Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures.
The delegates will practise:
- Creating, copying, renaming, moving and deleting files and directories
- Using the shell's redirection and pipe facilities
- Editing text files using the vi editor
- Setting and changing access permissions on files
- Monitoring and controlling their own processes
- Using the basic file and text searching utilities
- Customising their own login environment
- Writing simple scripts to enhance basic command output
- Using the various shell quoting mechanisms appropriately
- Manipulating shell variables and user-defined variables in scripts
- Implementing conditional execution facilities
- Using the shell's built-in loop constructs where appropriate
- Writing scripts to trap user interrupts
- Developing menu-driven shellscripts
This course includes the following modules:
Introduction to the HP-UX Operating System
- A brief history of UNIX
- The UNIX kernel
- The UNIX file system
- A login session
- Getting started navigating the file system
- The file system structure
- Directories and files
- Pathnames
- Navigating the file system
Basic Commands
- Command line syntax
- Basic file handling commands
- Basic Directory handling commands
- Filename wildcard characters
Redirection and Pipes
- Input redirection
- Output redirection
- Pipes
Introduction to the vi Editor
- Overview of the vi editor
- Basic functions
- Switching to input mode
- Other useful commands
Searching and Replacing Text
- Replacing text
- Using the vi editor
- Using sed for search and replace
- Searching for text with grep
- Linking files
Recalling and Editing Commands
- Overview
- The Bash shell
- The Korn shell
File Permissions and Access Control
- Users and user groups
- File access permissions
- Changing file attributes
- Switching users and user groups
- Linking files
Processes
- What is a process?
- Monitoring processes
- Killing processes
- Background processes
- Job Control
- Grouping commands
More Basic Commands
- The wc (word count) command
- The find command
- The cut command
- The sort command
- The finger command
The User Enviornment
- Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
- Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
Unix Command Review
- Basic Unix commands
- General commands
- File and directory handling commands
- Filename generation characters
- I/O Redirection features
- Other commands
Getting Started
- What is a shell script?
- Development guidelines
- Creating and editing shell scripts
- Naming and storing shell scripts
- Executing shell scripts
Using Variables
- Environment variables
- Local variables
- Assigning values to variables
- Assessing variable values
- Using quotes
- Delimiting variable names
- Echo control sequences
Integer Arithmetic
- Using the expr command
- Using the (( )) notation
Handling Run Time Data
- The read command
- Command line arguments
Condition Execution
- The if statement
- The test command
- Other test notations
- Default and substitute variables
- Exit status codes
Loop Constructs
- The while loop
- The until loop
- The for loop
- The while true and until false loops
- Loop control commands
Multi-branch Decisions
- The case statement
- Menu driven applications
Functions
- What is a function?
- Syntax
- Examples
Interrupt Handling
- Interrupt signals
- Trapping interrupts
Additional Features and Facilities
- The exec commands
- The includes notation
- More about loops
- Arrays
- Here Documents
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