Review of Unix Basics

• Architecture of Unix
• Basic File and Directory Commands
• Relative and Absolute Path Names
• Using Wildcards (FNG)
• Wildcard Shortcuts and Pitfalls
• File and Directory Permissions
• Interpreting Permissions
• Controlling Permissions
• Default Permissons
• Redirecting Output
• Redirecting Input
• Viewing Text Files

Becoming a vi Master

• vi Command Review
• Search and Replace
• Buffer Commands
• Understanding vi Objects
• Using vi Clipboards
• Inserting Command Output
• Filtering and External Commands
• Using Abbreviations
• Mapping Keys to Commands
• vi Options
• Making Settings Permanent
• vi Emulators

File Processing Tools

• Paging Programs
• The grep Family
• grep Matching Options
• grep Output Options
• egrep
• The sort Command
• Sorting on Multiple fields
• Using tr
• About Binary Files
• Unix Tools for Binary Files

Regular Expressions

• What are Regular Expressions
• Basic Regular Expressions
• Matching Any Character
• Escaping Any Character
• Character Classes
• negated Character Classes
• POSIX Character Classes
• Anchoring Searches to a Location
• Matching Any Number of Occurrences
• Extended Regular Expressions
• Matching a Range of Occurrences
• Shortcuts for Ranges
• Matching Words
• Ignoring Case
• Alternation and Grouping
• Using Subexpressions
• Special Replacement Characters

Using sed

• sed Overview
• sed Basics
• sed Line Addressing
• Simple sed Tasks
• Search and Replace with sed

Using awk

• awk Overview
• awk Basics
• awk Variables
• awk Addresses
• Arrays
• Loops
• Output
• Writing awk Programs
• One-line awk Programs

Korn Shell for Power Users

• Unix Shells
• Shell Startup Files
• Setting Korn Shell Options
• Suppressing Core Dumps
• Shell History
• Arrow Keys in emacs Mode
• Timing Out
• Changing Directories
• Checking for Changed Files
• Shell Functions for Complex Aliases
• Some Useful Functions
• Interactive for Loops
• Math and the Shell
• range: A Function for Iteration
• Your ~./.profile
• Your ~/.kshrc

Using the Network

• Basic ftp Usage
• Automatic Login with ftp
• ftp Macros
• Automating ftp File Transfer
• The ncftp Program
• Overview of Trusted Access
• Configuring Trusted User Services
• Overview of the "r" Commands
• rlogin
• rcp
• rsh/remsh
• Configuring and Using Secure Shell
• ssh
• scp
• ssh-keygen
• Copying Files Using rsync

Installing and Configuring Freeware

• How the Shell Finds Commands
• Setting PATH
• Software Installation Issues for Users vs. Administrators
• Categories of Available Software
• Building Software from Source Code
• Understanding make
• Installing Freeware
• GNU Software and the GPL
• Must-have Freeware

Scheduling Batch Processes

• The Unix Multi-tasking Environment
• Monitoring and Killing Processes
• Job Control
• Process Priority Management
• cron Concepts
• Configuring a cron Table
• Using crontab
• Delaying execution with at
• Managing at Jobs

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