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Aixfundamentals

The AIX Fundamentals course spans five days, covering essential topics such as the AIX operating system, basic commands, file permissions, and shell scripting. Participants will engage in hands-on exercises to reinforce their learning, including navigating the file system, using the vi editor, and writing shell scripts with various constructs. The course concludes with advanced topics like functions, interrupt handling, and additional scripting features.

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Aixfundamentals

The AIX Fundamentals course spans five days, covering essential topics such as the AIX operating system, basic commands, file permissions, and shell scripting. Participants will engage in hands-on exercises to reinforce their learning, including navigating the file system, using the vi editor, and writing shell scripts with various constructs. The course concludes with advanced topics like functions, interrupt handling, and additional scripting features.

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AIX Fundamentals

DAY 1
Course Introduction

 Administration and Course Materials


 Course Structure and Agenda
 Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE AIX OPERATING SYSTEM

 A brief history of UNIX


 The UNIX kernel
 The UNIX file system
 A login Session
 Getting started navigating the file system
 The file system structure
 Directories and files
 Pathnames
 Navigating the file system
 Exercise: Logging on to the system
 Exercise: Navigating the file system

Session 2: BASIC COMMANDS

 Command line syntax


 Basic file handling commands
 Basic Directory handling commands
 Filename wildcard characters
 Exercise: Manipulating files and directories

Session 3: REDIRECTION AND PIPES

 Input redirection
 Output redirection
 Pipes
 Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities

DAY 2
Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi EDITOR

 Overview of the vi editor


 Basic functions
 Switching to input mode
 Other useful commands
 Exercises: Using the vi editor
 Exercise: Using more advanced vi features

Session 5: SEARCHING AND REPLACING TEXT

 Searching and replacing text using the vi editor


 Using regular expressions (regex)
 Using sed for search and replace
 Searching for text with grep, egrep and fgrep
 Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text

Session 6: RECALLING AND EDITING COMMANDS

 Overview
 The bash shell
 The korn shell
 Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands

Session 7: FILE PERMISSIONS AND ACCESS CONTROL

 Users and user groups


 File access permissions
 Changing file attributes
 Switching users and user groups
 Linking files
 Exercise: Setting and access permissions

DAY 3
Session 8: FILTERING TEXT

 Overview
 The cut command
 An introduction to awk
 The nl command
 Exercises: Filtering Text

Session 9: PROCESSES

 What is a process?
 Monitoring processes
 Killing processes
 Background processes
 Job Control
 Grouping commands
 Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes
Session 10: THE USER ENVIRONMENT

 Customising the .profile or .bash_profile


 Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
 Exercise: Setting up an environment

Session 11: MORE BASIC COMMANDS

 The find command


 Using xargs command
 Using the locate command
 The df command
 The cut command
 The sort command
 Finding duplicate content
 The finger and pinky commands
 Exercise: More Basic Commands

DAY 4
AIX Fundamentals Training Course
Session 12: UNIX COMMAND REVIEW

 Basic Unix commands


 General commands
 File and directory handling commands
 Filename generation characters and regular expressions (regex)
 I/O Redirection features
 Other commands

Session 13: GETTING STARTED

 What is a shell script?


 Development guidelines
 Creating and editing shell scripts
 Naming and storing shell scripts
 Executing shell scripts
 Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 14: USING VARIABLES

 Environment variables
 Local variables
 Assigning values to variables
 Assessing variable values
 Using quotes
 Delimiting variable names
 echo control sequences
 Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 15: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

 Using the expr command


 Using the (( )) notation
 Exercise: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 16: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

 The read command


 Command line arguments
 Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
 Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 17: CONDITIONAL EXECUTION

 The if statement
 The test command
 Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts

Session 18: ADDITIONAL KORN, BASH & POSIX SYNTAX

 Other test notations


 Default and substitute variables
 Exit status codes
 Exercise

DAY 5
Session 19: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

 The while loop


 The until loop
 The for loop
 The while true and until false loops
 Loop control commands
 Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
 Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a 'for' loop
 Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the 'while' loop

Session 20: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

 The case statement


 Menu driven applications
 Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 21: FUNCTIONS

 What is a function?
 Syntax
 Examples
 Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 22: INTERRUPT HANDLING

 Interrupt signals
 Trapping interrupts
 Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Session 23: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

 The exec commands


 The includes notation
 More about loops
 Arrays
 Here Documents
 Exercise: Create a here script

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