Unix and Linux Essentials

This lesson details all the topics covered throughout the duration of the course.

Lesson Topics:

• Course goals

• Your learning centre

• Course agenda

• Your practice environment

• Introduction

• Describe the Java EE Web Profile

• Getting familiar with your practice environment

Lesson topics:

• Describe the UNIX

• Log in and change your user password

• Operating system

• Display system information using the command line

• Execute commands from the command line

• Using the man pages

This lesson explains how to work with files and directories.

This includes tasks, such as locating your position in the directory structure, viewing file contents, copying and moving files and directories, creating and removing files and directories, and searching for files and directories.

Lessons:

• Determine your location in The directory structure

• Accessing files and directories

• Copy and move files and directories

• Using files and directories

• View file content

• Locating files and text

• Create and remove files and directories

• Search for files and directories

This lesson introduces the vi editor and explains how to perform basic editing functions on files using the vi commands.

Lessons:

• Access the vi editor

• Using the vi editor

This lesson introduces you to the bash shell, the default shell for both Oracle Solaris 11 and Oracle Linux 6.2. It also describes the various functions you can perform on a bash shell, such as using expansion characters, applying shell metacharacters, using command redirection, and working with the user initialization files.

Lesson Topic:

• Use shell expansion for generating shell tokens

• Using shell metacharacters

• Use shell metacharacters for command redirection

• Using variables in the bash shell

• Display the command history

• Using the command history

• Customize the user’s work environment

• Using redirecting commands

• Customizing the user’s work environment

This lesson explains the basic file and directory permissions and the procedures to modify them when required.

Lesson Topics:

• View file and directory permissions

• Changing file ownership

• Change Permissions

• Changing file permissions

• Modify default permissions

• Modify default permissions

This lesson describes a process, its attributes, the process states, and process subsystems. You also learn about the various commands that help you in managing and controlling system processes.

Lesson Topics:

• Describe a process and its attributes

• Controlling system processes

• Manage processes

This lesson introduces some advanced shell features in shell scripts, such as managing jobs, creating aliases, using shell functions, and options. The lesson also explains how to create shell programs using scripting constructs and execute the programs.

Lesson Topics:

• Use advanced shell features

• Using advanced bash shell functionality

• Write shell scripts

• Using shell scripts

This lesson addresses the need for and the means of file archival and retrieval. Also, the lesson covers the various file compression and uncompression tools. Finally, you learn about remote file transfers.

Lesson Topics:

• Archive and retrieve files

• Archiving and retrieving files

• Compress, view, and uncompress files

• Compressing and restoring files

• Perform remote connections and file transfers

• Performing remote connections and file transfers