Duration
4 days
Course Overview
This course enables students to perform everyday tasks using the AIX operating system.
Learn to perform everyday tasks using the AIX operating system.
Audience
This basic course is intended for anyone who requires basic AIX/UNIX user skills to be able to work in an AIX environment.
This course is also a prerequisite for many courses in the AIX Systems Administration curriculum.
Pre-requisites
You should be familiar with:
- basic information technology (IT) concepts and the role of an operating system
Objective
- Log in to an AIX system and set a user password
- Use AIX online documentation
- Manage AIX files and directories
- Describe the purpose of the shell
- Use the vi editor
- Execute common AIX commands and manage AIX processes
- Customize the working environment
- Use common AIX utilities
- Write simple shell scripts
- Use the AIXWindows Environment
- Use the Common Desktop Environment
Key topics
Day 1
- Exercise 1 - Using the System
- Exercise 2 - AIX Documentation
- Exercise 3 - Files and Directories
- Exercise 4 - Using Files
Day 2
- Exercise 5 - File Permissions
- Exercise 6 - The vi Editor
- Exercise 7 - Shell Basics
- Exercise 8 - Using Shell Variables
Day 3
- Exercise 9 - Controlling Processes
- Exercise 10 - Customizing the User Environment
- Exercise 11 - AIX Utilities (1)
- Exercise 12 - AIX Utilities (2)
- Exercise 13 - AIX Utilities (3)
Day 4
- Exercise 14 - AIX Utilities (4)
- Exercise 15 - Additional Shell Features
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.