Solaris Fundamentals

Who will the Course Benefit? Who will the Course Benefit?

There are no formal pre-requisites for this Solaris Fundamentals course, although an understanding of and exposure to information technology is advantageous.

Programmers, administrators and support personnel who need to understand the SOLARIS Operating system, existing shellscripts, automate procedures and write their own utilities.

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

• Creating, copying, renaming, moving and deleting files and directories
• Using the shell's redirection and pipe facilities
• Editing text files using the vi editor
• Setting and changing access permissions on files
• Monitoring and controlling their own processes
• Using the basic file and text searching utilities, including regular expressions (regex)
• Customising their own login environment
• Writing simple scripts to enhance basic command output
• Using the various shell quoting mechanisms appropriately
• Manipulating shell variables and user-defined variables in scripts
• Implementing conditional execution facilities
• Using the shell's built-in loop constructs where appropriate
• Writing scripts to trap user interrupts
• User defined Functions
• Developing menu-driven shellscripts

Developing menu-driven shellscripts Course Objectives Course Objectives

The Solaris Fundamentals course provides the skills needed to work productively in a SOLARIS environment to develop and customise shell programs.

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

• Creating, copying, renaming, moving and deleting files and directories
• Using the shell's redirection and pipe facilities
• Editing text files using the vi editor
• Setting and changing access permissions on files
• Monitoring and controlling their own processes
• Using the basic file and text searching utilities, including regular expressions (regex)
• Customising their own login environment
• Writing simple scripts to enhance basic command output
• Using the various shell quoting mechanisms appropriately
• Manipulating shell variables and user-defined variables in scripts
• Implementing conditional execution facilities
• Using the shell's built-in loop constructs where appropriate
• Writing scripts to trap user interrupts
• User defined Functions
• Developing menu-driven shellscripts

Developing menu-driven shellscripts Course Objectives Course Objectives

The Solaris Fundamentals course provides the skills needed to work productively in a SOLARIS environment to develop and customise shell programs.