AIX Fundamentals
This course is the essential foundation for anyone intending to work in an AIX technical environment. The course introduces and explains the AIX computing environment at a conceptual and terminological level, and also includes a number of practical, hands-on exercises that reinforce the knowledge gained during the formal classroom sessions.
This course is also available for one-company, on-site presentations and for live presentation over the Internet, via the Virtual Classroom Environment service.
What you will learn
On successful completion of this course you will be able to:
- use AIX documentation
- move around the AIX directory structure
- create, copy and move files and directories
- understand AIX file permissions
- use the vi editor
- list and control processes
- understand and use AIX metacharacters
- use grep, cut, awk, sed and sort
- change login profiles
- understand the basics of AIX scripting
- use basic archiving commands
- utilise basic and advanced utilities.
Who Should Attend
All those who need to understand and use AIX.
Prerequisites
None.
Duration
4 days
Fee (per attendee)
P.O.A.
This includes free online 24/7 access to course notes.
Hard copy course notes are available on request from rsmshop@rsm.co.uk
at £50.00 plus carriage per set.
Course Code
AXFU
Contents
Introduction and Orientation
Understanding AIX components; logging in and out of an AIX system; understanding command structure; using keyboard control characters; using mail.
Files & Directories
Files and directories: what are they; becoming familiar with important AIX directories; relative vs full paths; copying, moving, creating and deleting files & directories; displaying text files; useful file utilities, the find command; hard vs symbolic links.
Permissions
Permission concepts; directory vs file permissions; changing permissions; controlling default permissions with umask.
Using vi
Opening files and inserting text; creating and editing files; the most important survival commands; saving changes.
Shell metacharacters
Why metacharacters; using wildcards for filenames; command redirections; combine commands with pipes; using command and variable substitution; disabling metacharacters.
Initialisation scripts
Aliases; shell functions; setting and exporting variables; configuring the shell with set; using .profile and .kshrc to customisie the environment.
Processes
Understanding process structure; listing and controlling processes; using nice and renice; running background jobs.
Shell script introduction
Running scripts; positional parameters; conditional execution; iterative processing with for and while; exit codes.
Basic utilities
grep; Regular expressions; Using sort; The find command; Progress tesing and check; Command summary.
Advanced utilities
Understanding regular expressions; using grep; extracting portions of text with cut and awk; using sed and sort to edit and sort text.
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