Solaris Fundamentals
Detailed Course Outline

 Overview of the UNIX Operating System

• UNIX features and benefits

• UNIX history and evolution

• UNIX standardization

• The structure of UNIX

Establishing Communication

• Starting a UNIX session

• Using the CDE and Gnome  (windows)

• Using basic UNIX commands

• Understanding the UNIX command syntax

• Using the UNIX "help" facility: manual pages

Introduction to the Filing System

• Examining UNIX files and directories

• Moving through the file system

• Using full and partial paths

• Understanding the current and parent directories

File Management

• Creating directories

• Copying files and directories

• Moving and renaming files and directories

• Removing files and directories

• Using shell metacharacters

UNIX Permissions

• Understanding permissions

• File permissions

• Directory permissions

• Change permissions with symbolic mode

• Change permissions with absolute (octal) mode

• Determine and set the umask value

Redirection Filters and Pipes

• Exploring standard input, standard output, and standard error

• Using filters

• Using pipes

Using the vi Editor

• Use various vi modes

• Invoke vi

• Employ input, positioning, and editing commands

• Use advanced editing options

• Create and save a file

Introduction to shell scripts

• Creating simple shell scripts

• Choosing a Shells

• UNIX Shells and Variables

• Understanding the UNIX shells

• Displaying the default variables

• Creating/Removing user variables

• stty to set terminal types (backspace, etc.)

The  Korn-shell and BASH User Environments

• .exrc and .profile files

• Modifying the PATH

The  C-shell and T-shell User Environments

• .cshrc and .login files

• Modifying the PATH

Using Aliases and Functions

• Introducing the alias concept

• Using functions

• Making your aliases and functions permanent

• Removing aliases and functions

Command Editing and Command History

• Enabling command editing using "fc"

• Using history to recall commands

• Saving your command history to a file

System Status and Command Information

• Determining your system and user status

• Determining command locations

Multitasking Capabilities

• Introduction to multitasking

• Managing jobs and background processes

• Using the process table to manage processes

• Introducing delayed and detached jobs

• Display system processes

• Use processes and process identifiers (PIDs)

• Identify parent and child processes

• Terminate processes using the kill command

• Use the pgrep and pkill commands

Advanced File Management

• Creating links

• Using "find" to locate files

• Using "grep" to search file contents

• Introducing the "egrep" command

• Processing files with "awk", "tr", and "sed"

Command line database processing

• Using awk to display file contents

• Formatting files with the tr command

• Using sed to edit file contents

• Scripting your database reporting

• Editing the contents of a text file from the command line

• Send the results of command-line editing to standard output

• Use regular expression metacharacters to delete lines, add text to lines, or change characters with sed commands

• Use awk to scan text files or standard input to display specific data, change data format, and add text to existing data

Archiving User Data

• Managing file space

• Archiving files and directories

• Compressing files

• Use the tar utility to store files

• Backup files with the tar and compress commands

• Use the jar command

• Use compression tools to save storage space

Printing

• lp, lpstat, cancel

Shell Scripts

• Writing and Running Shell Scripts

• Command Substitution

• Shell Variables and Variable Substitution

• Shell Environment Variables

• Comments

• Getting User Input – Read

• The for Loop and if Statement

• Exit Status or Return Code

• The test Command

• The case Statement

• Simple Conditionals

• The set Command

• Arithmetic with shell variables

Remote Connections

• Connect remotely using telnet

• Remotely access a system using rlogin

• Transfer files with ftp