Hands-on the system

• Different Unix versions (AIX, HP_UX, Solaris...).
• Login and logout.
• Structure of a Unix command.
• Using and customizing the desktop.
• Unix directories and file systems.
• Users and groups, file permissions.
• Essential commands to manage files and directories.
• How to use the on-line documentation.

Managing files, using text editors

• Essential commands to manage files.
• Physical and symbolic links.
• Additional commands to manage files and directories.
• Displaying disk usage.
• The vi editor.

Understanding and using shell

• Filtering.
• Redirecting.
• Executing programs.
• Environment and processes.
• Expanding commands.
• Writing shell-scripts.
• User environment ". profile".
• Additional commands.

Using and building tools, communicating

• Using regular expressions.
• Example : grep and the regular expressions.
• Essential tools.
• Using pipes.
• Using pipes to build higher level tools.
• Additional tools.
• Mail.

Describing multitasking

• Background execution.
• Tools to manage background and foreground processes.
• Sending signals and killing processes.
• Answering signals.

Reading and modifying a shell script

• Shell variables.
• Language instructions (if, for, while, ...).
• The test command.
• Simple shell script examples.
• Modifying a shell script.
• Interactive instructions in shell.

Using Unix on a network

• Remote connection (telnet, rlogin).
• Transfering files (ftp, rcp).
• Remote program execution (rsh).
• Remote program execution in a secure environment (ssh).
• Understanding security issues.
• Describing network terms (TCP/IP, NFS, NIS, DNS...).