Technical and Research Skills: IT Skills

UNIX/LINUX: An Introduction

1 day

This session will introduce the UNIX/LINUX operating system. Topics covered in this course include:

• discussion of the file hierarchy;
• use of essential UNIX commands;
• directory commands;
• file and directory protection;
• redirection of input and output;
• accessing command information;
• using network commands;
• creating and restoring archive files;
• commands used to compress files;
• the UNIX editors;
• using the sort command;
• Bourne shell login scripts;
• the awk command;
• writing awk scrips to process text files;
• use of selection criteria in awk scripts;
• use of standard awk functions in awk scripts.

The course will have a mixture of taught and practical work.

Provider: UGC
Target Group: RS & PGR