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Advanced UNIX

Abstract
(4 Days)

This course provides offers advanced topics for the UNIX user.  It is primarily focused on user functions, but includes a UNIX programming language (awk) as well as programming utilities.

Audience

The course is open to anyone with a knowledge of basic UNIX.  Programming experience is helpful, but not necessary.

Topics

• Compression tools

  • zip

  • unzip

  • tar

  • zcat

  • uuencode

  • decode

• Regular expressions and metacharacters

• UNIX environment variables

• System info

  • hostname

  • uname

  • arch

  • sysinfo

  • uptime

  • xload

  • top

  • df

  • dmesg

  • who

  • w

  • last

• Sed and sed scripts

• Introduction to awk programming

• UNIX utilities

  • find

  • egrep

  • diff

  • cmp

  • ticksum

  • tr

  • script

  • touch

  • cron

  • crontab

  • fsplit

  • expand

  • head

  • tail

• Using make for compilation and linking

• Source control with sccs

Supervised Exercises

Each class session will be followed by a set of exercises reinforcing the class work.