Course Outcomes

After you have completed this course you will be able to:

• Discuss what the Unix operating system is
• Discuss the history and development of the Unix operating system
• Understand the structure of the Unix operating system
• Discuss the features of Unix as an operating system
• Enter and leave the Unix System
• Add or change your password
• Use simple commands such as: man, date, who, banner, cal, echo, ls
• Interrupt a running process
• Suspend a process
• Send electronic mail
• Discuss the structure of Unix files
• Create ordinary files
• Implement the standard Unix directory file and file hierarchy
• Discuss absolute and relative pathnames
• Discuss the structure of special files, including /dev
• Manipulate ordinary files with the following commands: cat, more, pg, cp, ln, mv, rm, file, strings
• Use commands such as: clear, uname, head/tail, last, wc, tty, compress, uncompress
• Manipulating directory files with the mkdit and rmdir commands
• Manipulate both ordinary and directory files with the following commands; copy, find, rm-r
• Use and understand wildcard characters
• Distinguish between different types of file access permissions
• Change permissions with CHMOD
• Change ownership and group permissions with CHOWN and CHGRP
• Set system-wide permissions with UNMASK
• Substitute user login with SU
• Use the ID command
• Set terminal options
• Set up environment variables
• Use the Shell start-up files such as 'profile'
• Use wildcard characters
• Use quotation marks
• Redirect file input and output
• Run background processes
• Use pipes and filters
• Structure your Unix system
• Know what a Unix file system is including the superblock, inode table and file system recovery
• Mount and unmount file systems
• Monitor system usage
• Understand how the Unix system handles processes
• Understand how the process table works
• Look at the process table using ps
• Remove processes from the process table
• Use other commands such as w and whodo
• Know 3 backup commands: TAR, DO, CPIO
• Understand how Unix handles the Buffer and Page Cache
• Monitor your System's Resources

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