HP-UX Introduction Course Overview

Course Prerequisites

• Basic Computer Knowledge.

Target Audience for HP-UX Introduction

The HP-UX Introduction course offers foundational knowledge of the HP-UX OS, ideal for professionals seeking UNIX system skills.

• System Administrators
• IT Support Specialists
• Network Engineers
• Database Administrators
• Security Analysts
• Software Developers
• Technical Consultants
• Data Center Staff
• IT Students and Academics
• Technical Support Personnel
• Professionals transitioning to UNIX-based systems
• HP-UX System Operators
• UNIX/Linux Enthusiasts and Power Users

Learning Objectives - What you will Learn in this HP-UX Introduction?

1. Introduction: The HP-UX Introduction course offers foundational knowledge of the HP-UX Operating System, including command-line proficiency, file system navigation, text processing, and process management.

2. Learning Objectives and Outcomes:

• Understand the history and structure of UNIX and the HP-UX kernel to build a contextual foundation for system operations.
• Gain fluency in navigating the HP-UX file system, managing files and directories, and understanding pathnames.
• Learn command-line syntax and essential commands for file and directory handling, including the use of wildcard characters.
• Develop skills in input and output redirection, and using pipes to connect multiple commands for efficient data processing.
• Acquire proficiency in using the vi editor for file editing, including searching, replacing text, and utilizing more advanced features.
• Understand and use regular expressions for pattern matching and leverage sed, grep, egrep, and fgrep for text processing tasks.
• Master the techniques to recall and edit previous commands within different shells like bash and korn shells.
• Learn about file permissions and access control, including changing file attributes and switching users and user groups.
• Become adept at filtering text using commands like cut, awk, and nl to manipulate and analyze data streams.
• Understand process management in HP-UX, including monitoring, killing, and controlling background processes, and job control.
• Customize the user environment through .profile, .bash_profile, .kshrc, or .bashrc to streamline and personalize the command-line interface.
• Enhance command-line toolset with more advanced commands like find, xargs, locate, df, cut, sort, and methods for identifying duplicate content, as well as obtaining user information with finger and pinky commands.