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Wed 30 May - Thu 31 May 2012
14:15 - 17:00

Venue: Phoenix Teaching Room

Provided by: University Computing Service


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Unix: Introduction to the Command Line Interface (Self-paced)
Beginners

Wed 30 May - Thu 31 May 2012

Description

The course is designed to take someone from having no knowledge of the Unix command line to being able to navigate around directories, and doing simple file manipulation. Then some of the more basic commands, will be introduced, including information on how to get more help from the system itself. Finally accessing remote computers by ssh and the most basic of shell scripts will be introduced.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course beyond having used a computer with a keyboard before. No Unix knowledge is expected.

Sessions

Number of sessions: 2

# Date Time Venue Trainers
1 Wed 30 May 2012   14:15 - 17:00 14:15 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room S.J. Ison,  M. ten Wolde
2 Thu 31 May 2012   14:15 - 17:00 * 14:15 - 17:00 * Phoenix Teaching Room S.J. Ison,  M. ten Wolde
* Optional session.
Topics covered
  • Launching a terminal window
  • Launching graphical applications from the command line
  • Navigating the file system in the CLI
  • Running applications in the CLI
  • Redirecting data
  • Piping commands
  • File name wildcards
  • Environment variables
  • Configuring the CLI
  • Remote access to other Unix systems
  • Trivial shell scripts
Format

Presentation with self-paced practicals.

System requirements

SUSE v. 11.1 on PWF Linux

Notes
Duration

Two half day sessions

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