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Course Overview This comprehensive two-day course aims to equip the novice Solaris/UNIX user with all the skills necessary to navigate the system and make productive use of the tools available, including the Windows system, the vi editor and essential Solaris/UNIX commands. It also forms the necessary foundation for subsequent courses. Audience This course is suitable for new computer users and those who are using Solaris or UNIX for the first time. Previous experience with an interactive computer system is desirable but not essential. Course Outline Solaris / UNIX overview What are Solaris and Unix? Advantages and disadvantages. Basic command examples. Other versions of Unix. Future of Unix. Logistics and support. Getting started Logging in and out. Basic Gnome Window system use. Keyboard basics. Files, directories and path names. Creating and examining files. Effective use of directories. Moving, copying and removing files. Basic system password security. Online Documentation and the man command. Common problems. The vi editor Invoking vi. Insert and Append. Moving around the text. Deleting text. Change operators. Other insert operators. Searching for text; Search and replace. Saving and quitting. The next stage Introduction to UNIX shells. Shell interaction, including: Re-direction and piping. Shell metacharacters. The history mechanism, and command line editing facilities. The shell quoting mechanism. Setting up and using aliases. Process control. More complex copying and moving. Protecting files and directories. Shell variables and setting up the environment. Environment variables. Introduction to Solaris utilities. Halting the workstation. Gnome Window System An thorough examination of the major tools available, such as the Panel, File Manager, Text editor and the Help system. Customising the Workspace and setting basic user preferences. Introduction to networking Introduction to network concepts. Ethernet Overview. Network basic commands (including logging in to other machines with ssh). Network File System (NFS) - overview, benefits and uses. Overview of Samba file sharing with Microsoft machines.
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