Introduction To Solaris

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Course Length:

3 Days

Course Description:

This course teaches students how to use fundamental UNIX commands and basic Solaris commands. This course is intended for students new to Sun's Solaris operating system. Students will learn functions of the shell, file system navigation, Solaris editors, file commands (including ls, cat, rm, mv, cp and ln), additional commonly used commands (including grep, od and pr) as well as learning user communication tools such as mailx.

Who Should Attend:

This course is intended for programmers and end users who are new to the Sun Microsystems Solaris Operating System.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Log in and out of the system.
• Navigate through the UNIX file system.
• Manipulate files.
• File permissions.
• Use basic network commands.
• Search for file names and strings.
• Edit files using the 'vi' editor.
• Use shell productivity features.
• Use shell productivity features.
• Use the 'vi' editor.
• Use mailx to send mail.

Prerequisites:

Some familiarity with an operating system such as DOS is required.

Course Outline:

• Chapter 1: Brief History Of Operating Systems
  1. Operating system concepts
  2. Operating system features
  3. UNIX history
  4. Major UNIX flavors
  5. Solaris features
  6. Solaris components
  7. Solaris characteristics
  8. Standards
  9. Application areas
• Chapter 2: Getting Started
  1. Logging in and logging out
  2. Using the shell
  3. Command line formats
  4. How to get help-man
  5. The stty command
• Chapter 3: Getting To Know The Shell
  1. The shell as a user interface
  2. The standard output file
  3. Appending of the standard output file
  4. The standard input file
  5. Pipes
  6. The standard error file
  7. Summary of special I/O characters
  8. Shell variables
  9. Quoting mechanisms
  10. Command substitution
  11. The shell prompt variables
  12. File name generation characters
  13. Alias
  14. Functions
  15. The History Mechanism
  16. Editing the command line
• Chapter 4: The File System
  1. User view of the file system
  2. File types
  3. File system concepts
  4. The /etc/passwd file
  5. Directory commands
  6. File access permissions
  7. Groups
  8. The chmod command
  9. Using the umask
• Chapter 5: Solaris Editors
  1. Solaris editors
  2. Starting ed
  3. Simple ed session
  4. Format of ed commands
  5. Another ed session
  6. Summary of ed commands
  7. Searching with ed
  8. Substituting with ed
  9. The vi editor
  10. Editing an existing file
  11. Adding text
  12. Cursor movement commands
  13. vi modes
  14. Deleting text
  15. Changing text
  16. Copying and moving text
  17. Searching for text
  18. Last line mode
  19. vi customization
  20. Odds and ends
• Chapter 6: File Commands
  1. Relative vs complete pathnames
  2. The shell's search algorithm
  3. The ls command - directory listing
  4. The cat command - concatenate files
  5. The rm command - remove files
  6. The mv command - rename a file
  7. The cp command - copy a file
  8. The ln command - give file additional name
  9. The cmp, diff commands - compare two files
  10. The file command - determine file type
  11. The pg command - page through a file
  12. The find command - locate a file
• Chapter 7: Commonly Used Commands
  1. The grep command - pattern matching
  2. The wc command - word count
  3. The sort command - sort lines of a file
  4. The head command - display first few lines
  5. The tail command - display last few lines
  6. The tr command - translate characters
  7. The cut command - cut fields (or chars)
  8. The od command - octal dump a file
  9. The paste command - paste lines together
  10. The split command - split a file
  11. The uniq command - report repeated lines
  12. The lp command - print a file
• Chapter 8: The Mailx Command
  1. The mailx command
  2. Sending mail
  3. Reading your mail
  4. Commands within mail
  5. Replying to mail
  6. Tilde commands
  7. mailx customization
  8. Sending binary files
  9. Decoding binary files
  10. Sending directories