AIX Basics

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.

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

AIX Basics Training Course Course Contents - 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
• 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

AIX Basics Training Course Course Contents - DAY 2

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

AIX Basics Training Course Course Contents - 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

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.

• AIX Shell Programming (ASPR)
• Oracle SQL (OSP)
• TCP/IP Networking (TN)