This course is for beginners and already working professionals who want to upgrade their knowedge on UNIX or LINUX operating systems.

Below is the course Outline 

Introduction to the Unix 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

Unix Basic Commands

Command line syntax

Basic file handling commands

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

Linking files

Redirection, Pipes and Filters

Standard I/O and redirection

Pipes

Command separation

Conditional execution

Grouping Commands

UNIX filters

The tee command

Commands for Comparing Files

Compare two files with the cmp command

Compare two files with the comm command

Compare two files with the diff and sdiff commands

Compare large files with the bdiff command

File Manipulation Commands

The file command

The head command

The tail command

The cut command

The paste command

The pr command

The split and csplit commands

Identify and Translate Characters

Use cat to display non-printing characters

The expand and unexpand commands

The tr command

Sorting Files

The sort command

Specify sort keys with -k

Sort by column positions

The uniq command

Regular Expression Notation

Regular expressions

Extended regular expressions

Searching Files for Patterns

The grep family of commands

The grep command

The fgrep command

The egrep command

The Stream Editor - sed

Introduction and command line syntax

The sed program structure

sed program processing

Use sed commands

sed addresses

sed instructions

Hold and get functions

Advanced flow control

Introduction to the Pattern Scanning Utility - awk

Introduction and command line syntax

The awk program structure

Use regular expressions

Operators

Simple patterns

Extended patterns

Comments

Special patterns (BEGIN and END)

Program variables

Built-in variables

User defined variables

Mathematical operators

Enhanced printing

Handling user variables

awk Program Control Structures

Program control structures

The if construct

The while and do ... while constructs

The basic for construct

Associative array handling

Functions

Built in functions

The system function

The getline function

User defined functions

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 User Environment

the .profile or .bash_profile

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

Additional Features and Facilities

The exec commands

Arrays

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