CMDBID: 106325 | Course Code: SF | Duration: 5 Days
Audience>
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.
Skills>
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
The Solaris Fundamentals course provides the skills needed to work productively in a SOLARIS environment to develop and customise shell programs.
Outline>
View Course Contents - DAY 1 Solaris Fundamentals Training Course
Course Introduction
Administration and Course Materials
Course Structure and Agenda
Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE SOLARIS 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
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Solaris Fundamentals Training Course
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
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Session 8: FILTERING TEXT
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
The locate command
The df command
The sort command
Finding duplicate content
The finger command
Exercise: More Basic Commands
View Course Contents - DAY 4
Session 12: UNIX COMMAND REVIEW
Basic Unix commands
General commands
File and directory handling commands
Filename generation and regular expression characters
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
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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
Our Clients
Our clients have included prestigious national organisations such as Oxford University Press, multi-national private corporations such as JP Morgan and HSBC, as well
as public sector institutions such as the Department of Defence and the Department of Health.
