A Hands-on HP-UX Introduction
This class is for people who have never used UNIX before or who have
some UNIX knowledge but want to get better and learn some HP specifics.
The class is hands-on.
Class will run 8:30am to 4:30pm with an hour for lunch.
The class textbook will be The UNIX Companion
by Harley Hahn, McGraw Hill, 1995. It will be supplied by Kenneth
Ingham Consulting. Students will also receive a set of notes to augment
the textbook.
Price: Contact us for pricing.
The class outline is:
Intro
Student and instructor introductions
What is HP-UX and how does it compare to other OSs
Basics
Logging in
Logging out
Basic mouse usage
An overview of the Common Desktop Environment
Typing and correcting mistakes
Some simple commands: who, ls, date, cal
Display the contents of a file (more)
Lab
Finding the answer
The help system
The manual pages
How to use these to answer questions
Lab
File manipulation
Overview of the HP-UX filesystem (files, dirs, tree structure)
List files in a directory, including various options to ls
Pathnames (absolute and relative)
Changing directories
Creating and removing directories
The file command
Create files and directories
Move, rename, copy
Delete files
Change permissions (chmod)
Optional: chown/chgrp
Lab
The dtpad editor
Getting in and out
Moving around
Adding text
Deleting text
Changing text
Lab
The shell
What is a shell
Metacharacters
The three I/O streams
I/O redirection
Lab
Pipes
Some useful tools for use with pipes
Lab
History
Optional: aliases
Lab
X windows and CDE
Window operations
Remote computing, local display
The front panel
The file manager
Lab
Optional: Basic shell programming
Variables
Environment variables
test and expressions
Using #! to start a shell script
test and expressions
if
while
for
case
Signals
trap
Special variables
Functions
Quoting
Lab
Processes
Process geneology
Background
Job control
nohup
nice
ps
w and uptime
kill
Lab
Optional: cron and at
Lab
email (optional)
Basic concepts
dtmail
reading mail
sending mail
Lab
Networking
Basics of how a network works, LANs, WANs
ping
File transfer (ftp, rcp)
Remote login (telnet, rsh)
The Domain Name Service
traceroute
Optional: NIS
Optional: NFS
Lab
Not all optional material can be covered. How much is covered depends
on the customer's needs and the backgrounds of the students.
