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Course benefits The course incorporates extensive hands-on practical sessions, providing delegates with practical skills which include the ability to use AIX commands, the vi editor, TCP/IP utilities and the ability to manipulate files and directories.
AIX users intending to progress on to course AU223: AIX Shell Programming and Utilities.
All users of AIX systems who believe they would benefit from a grounding in basic AIX commands and utilities.
This course provides IT staff a thorough introduction to the AIX operating system, and provides a solid foundation for follow-on courses, including AIX system administration.
System support staff who are new to AIX and UNIX.
Delegates must have prior experience of a command-line operating system such as MS-DOS.
Introduction
Overview of UNIX
UNIX history and evolution
AIX system design
AIX system roles: workstation, server, multi-user systems
Working with AIX
AIX security
Logging into AIX
Changing passwords
Using basic AIX commands
Managing your AIX session
Obtaining on-line help
Advanced use of 'man'
Exiting utilities, shells and AIX
The command interpreter
Basic shell commands
Communicating with others: who, write, mail, mesg
AIX filesystems
Files and directories
Listing file and directory details
Checking disk space and disk utilisation
Special files, inodes
Hard and symbolic links
Creating and managing files
Typing, copying, moving, renaming and deleting files
Checking file types
Creating and managing directories
Finding files
Printing with AIX
Understanding AIX printing
Printers, queues, classes Initiating and managing print requests
Understanding the AIX shell
Special characters
Quoting and escaping
Metacharacters and wildcards
Standard I/O (STDIO)
Redirection, here documents
Pipes and filters
Listing processes
Starting and controlling background tasks
Managing jobs
AIX text editors
Introduction to ed
Introduction to vi
vi operating modes
Essential vi commands
Text processing commands
Text processing with cut, paste sort, uniq, wc, head, tail
File comparison, diff, cmp
Regular expressions
Using simple regular expressions
More complex expressions
Using grep, egrep and fgrep
Basic AIX security
AIX accounts, UIDs and GIDs
File and directory permissions
Changing file owner and group
Setting modes and permissions
Directory permissions
The AIX shell environment
Creating and managing shell variables
Using the C shell
Using the Korn shell
Using commands history
Shell aliases and functions
Configuring shell startup files
Using CDE and X-Windows
X-Windows concepts
Using the Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
Using CDE applications
Configuring CDE/X-Windows
