The course provides a thorough grounding in the Solaris Unix Operating System through comprehensive hands-on exercises and labs. Upon completion of this course participants are ready to work confidently in the Solaris Environment. This course is a pre-requisite for the Solaris Advanced Course.

Solaris Training Audience

People who want to learn more about the Unix Solaris Operating System. This includes people who must work with Solaris in their jobs, for example, Web Developers, System Administrators and people running other applications on Solaris.

Solaris Training Prerequisites

Basic PC skills and a strong knowledge of DOS would be helpful but is not essential.

Solaris Training Course duration

5 Days

Solaris Training Course outline

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Solaris Unix Environment
	History of the Unix Operating System Introduction to the Solaris Operating Environment Components of a Computer System Kernel Resident Modules The Shell Features of Unix
Chapter 2: Accessing the System
	Passwords in the Unix System Logging into the system Unix Commands Entering Commands in Unix
Chapter 3: Accessing Files and Directories
	The Unix File System Directory Commands in Unix Working with Files
Chapter 4: Advanced Directory and File Commands
	Filenames in Unix Filename Substitution Shell Redirection Printing in the Unix Environment
Chapter 5: Searching for Files and Text
	Finding Files in the Unix System Regular Expressions Extended Regular Expressions
Chapter 6: Controlling Access to Files: Permissions
	File Permissions
Chapter 7: Using the Visual Editor: vi
	Creating and Editing Files in Unix What is vi?
Chapter 8: Storing Important Information: Backups
	Using tar Compress and Uncompress Commands
Chapter 9: Remote Connections and Commands
	Introduction to Networking Using telnet File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Remote Access Operations
Chapter 10: What are System Processes?
	Background Processing Job Control What is a Process?
Chapter 11: Using the Korn Shell
	The Unix Korn Shell Functions of the Shell Using aliases Defining Functions Customizing the Shell
Chapter 12: Introduction to ed, Sed and awk
	All about ed The sed Command Advanced Text Processing using awk
Chapter 13: Introduction to Shell Scripts and Shell Scripting
	Unix Shell Scripting Introduction Program Control Shell Special Variables