Unix: Introduction to the Command Line Interface (Self-paced) Beginners
Wed 28 Apr - Thu 29 Apr 2010
Description
The course is designed to take someone from having no knowledge of the Unix command line to being able to navigate around directories, and doing simple file manipulation. Then some of the more basic commands, will be introduced, including information on how to get more help from the system itself. Finally accessing remote computers by ssh and the most basic of shell scripts will be introduced.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course beyond having used a computer with a keyboard before. No Unix knowledge is expected.
Sessions
Number of sessions: 2
| # | Date | Time | Venue | Trainers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 28 Apr 2010 14:15 - 17:00 | 14:15 - 17:00 | Phoenix Teaching Room | S.J. Ison, M. ten Wolde |
| 2 | Thu 29 Apr 2010 14:15 - 17:00 * | 14:15 - 17:00 * | Phoenix Teaching Room | S.J. Ison, M. ten Wolde |
* Optional session.
Topics covered
- Launching a terminal window
- Launching graphical applications from the command line
- Navigating the file system in the CLI
- Running applications in the CLI
- Redirecting data
- Piping commands
- File name wildcards
- Environment variables
- Configuring the CLI
- Remote access to other Unix systems
- Trivial shell scripts
Format
Presentation with self-paced practicals.
System requirements
SUSE v. 11.1 on PWF Linux
Notes
Duration
Two half day sessions
Themes
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