AIX Basics

Course Code: AB

Duration: 3 days

AIX Basics Course Overview

This IBM AIX Operating System training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the AIX Operating System. The most commonly used commands and utilities are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

To provide the skills needed to work productively in the AIX environment.

Who will the Course Benefit?

Anyone who needs to understand and use the AIX Operating System.

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

Skills Gained

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

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AIX Basics Training Course

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
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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Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi EDITOR

Overview of the vi editor
Basic functions
Switching to input mode
Other useful commands
Exercise: 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

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

Notes:

Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings. Concepts, content and practicals often span sessions.

Requirements

There are no formal pre-requisites for this AIX Basics training course, although an understanding of and exposure to information technology and an understanding of operating systems is required.

Follow-On Courses

AIX Shell Programming

AIX System Administration - Part I

Oracle SQL

Linux Networking

Course Reviews

Very enjoyable, delivered at a manageable pace.

Keith - IT Business Analyst - Automotive

Good course, lots of explanation all on subjects and the practical exercises were very rewarding. Excellent trainer.

George - Open System Engineer - Finance

Having previously undertaken a similar course in the past I expected this course to not be especially beneficial, however this was not the case at all. I have garnered some very useful new skills and knowledge. The trainer's subject knowledge and delivery are a credit to himself and Stayahead. I was constantly engaged and rarely found myself requiring a repeat of the coursework but when needed he was more than helpful in explaining where I was struggling.

Laurence - Operations Support - Finance

The course was set at a good pace and the course content was structured very well. The facilities within the training complex were excellent!! The staff were very professional & helpful & the food was of a very high standard. Very happy with my 3 days on the course.

Stewart - Technical Specialist - Automotive

Brilliant Course! Would recommended. Very well presented and very useful. The instructor was very helpful and great to learn from.

Lewis - Service desk analyst - IT

The course has been good, trainer was really good at his job. Over all satisfied. Thanks

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