The UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 9 Operating Environment course provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to use components of the desktop system, manage files and directories, create and modify files, control the user work environment, archive files, and use remote commands. In addition, this course explains fundamental command line features of the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE), including file system navigation, the vi text editor, file permissions, command shells, file compression, and basic network use. This course is the first of a two-part series that students take in preparation for the Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris, Part I examination.

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Students who can benefit from this course are individuals who are preparing to perform basic system administration duties and are new to the Solaris OE, or those who are unfamiliar with the UNIX operating system.

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Use basic computer hardware (monitor, keyboard, mouse)
• Input commands and control characters from a keyboard

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Use components of the desktop system
• Use command-line features and help resources
• Manage and view files and directories and change the directory contents
• Create and modify files and use basic file permissions
• Control the user work environment
• Use commands within the Korn shell
• Perform basic process and job control
• Archive files and create archives
• Compress, view, and uncompress files
• Perform remote file transfers

Module 1 - Using the Desktop in the Solaris 9 OE

• Describe the four main hardware components of a computer
• Describe the three main components of the SunOS operating system
• Log in to the system
• Use the desktop environment

• Construct and execute commands from the command line
• Use online documentation

• Work with directories
• Work with files
• Print files

• Copy files and directories
• Move and rename files and directories
• Create files and directories
• Remove files and directories
• Use symbolic links

• Search for content in files
• Search for files and directories

• View file and directory permissions
• Determine file or directory access
• Change the permissions
• Use the default permissions

• View file and directory permissions
• Determine file or directory access
• Change the permissions
• Use the default permissions

• Use the shell metacharacters
• Describe the Korn shell variables
• Display the command history
• Describe user initialization files

• Describe a process
• View a process
• Search for a specific process
• Send a signal to a process
• Manage a job in the Korn shell

• Establish a remote login session on another system
• Copy files or directories to and from another system
• Transfer files between systems

• Archive files
• Compress and archive files

• Compress files using the compress command
• View compressed files using the zcat command
• Uncompress files using the uncompress command
• Compress a file with the gzip command
• View files using the gzcat command
• Compress and archive multiple files with the zip command