HP-UX Introduction

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 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.

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

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
• 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 Environment

• Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
• Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc