AIX Fundamentals

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Duration : 4 Days
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Description

    This course is the essential foundation for anyone intending to work in an AIX technical environment. The course introduces and explains the AIX computing environment at a conceptual and terminological level, and also includes a number of practical, hands-on exercises that reinforce the knowledge gained during the formal classroom sessions.

     

    Delegates will learn how to

    • use AIX documentation
    • move around the AIX directory structure
    • create, copy and move files and directories
    • understand AIX file permissions
    • use the vi editor
    • list and control processes
    • understand and use AIX metacharacters
    • use grep, cut, awk, sed and sort
    • change login profiles
    • understand the basics of AIX scripting
    • use basic archiving commands
    • utilise basic and advanced utilities.

Outline

Introduction and Orientation

  • Understanding AIX components; logging in and out of an AIX system; understanding command structure; using keyboard control characters; using mail.

Files & Directories

  • Files and directories: what are they; becoming familiar with important AIX directories; relative vs full paths; copying, moving, creating and deleting files & directories; displaying text files; useful file utilities, the find command; hard vs symbolic links.

Permissions

  • Permission concepts; directory vs file permissions; changing permissions; controlling default permissions with umask.

Using vi

  • Opening files and inserting text; creating and editing files; the most important survival commands; saving changes.

Shell metacharacters

  • Why metacharacters; using wildcards for filenames; command redirections; combine commands with pipes; using command and variable substitution; disabling metacharacters.

Initialisation scripts

  • Aliases; shell functions; setting and exporting variables; configuring the shell with set; using .profile and .kshrc to customisie the environment.

Processes

  • Understanding process structure; listing and controlling processes; using nice and renice; running background jobs.

Shell script introduction

  • Running scripts; positional parameters; conditional execution; iterative processing with for and while; exit codes.

Basic utilities

  • grep; Regular expressions; Using sort; The find command; Progress tesing and check; Command summary.

Advanced utilities

  • Understanding regular expressions; using grep; extracting portions of text with cut and awk; using sed and sort to edit and sort text.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.