Fundamentals of AIX
Course Length: Three Days

Course Description:
This course teaches the basic working environment of an AIX sytsem. It introduces commonly required operations that can be performed by entering commands interactively in a command terminal, along with functions available in the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). This course is taught for all supported IBM AIX hardware platforms.

Course Objectives:
Each participant will be able to use KornShell techniques and commands to maintain collections of files, create files using interactive editor utilities, create and execute basic command procedures, communicate with other users, and tailor the interactive environment to meet their needs. Environment control using the CDE graphical utilities will also be shown.

Course Prerequisites:
This course is considered to be the basic Unix/AIX course. Experience with any other interactive system is helpful.

Course Outline:

Understanding the User Environment
* Unix/AIX Software overview
* Process Concepts
* The common desktop environment GUI

Getting Started witht he Command Language
* Logging into a Unix System: graphically through the CDE, non-graphically through telnet or emulation

Shell Syntax Rules
* Command Line Editing
* Obtaining help using man and CDE overview
* Using the email utilities
* Using the write and talk Utilities
* Basic Network Operations

Managing Files
* File Specification Syntax
* Device Specifications
* Directory Specifications
* Using the CDE dtfile manager
* Regular Expressions and special characters
* Unix/AIX commands to manipulate files
* CDE utilities to maniuplate files
* File Protection Mechanisms

Creating and Editing Text Files: Part One
* Using GUI-based editors (dtpad)
* vi Editor
* ex Editor (commands within vi)

Creating and Editing Text Files: Part Two
* Advanced Features of the vi Editor
* abbreviations
* mapping keys

Improving the User Interface
* Saving history commands
* Creating command aliases
* Redirection of input and output
* Using hard and symbolic links
* process control commands

Shell Script Procedures
* Rules for creating procedures
* the .profile procedures
* Print and batch mechanisms
* The Ipr and Ip commands and options
* Using the CDE print manager
* The at command and qualifiers

User Level Archiving Operations
* tar utility syntax
* tar commands for product access
* Using compression/uncompression commands
* compress/uncompress
* gzip/gunzip

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