Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators, system programmers, UNIX operators, database administrators, and Web administrators.

• Use basic UNIX commands, such as rm, cp, man, more, mkdir, ps, chmod, and so on

• Create and edit text files in vi or a text editor

Advanced vi/m editor techniques

• useful non common commands
• highlighting, auto-indenting
• auto-completion, folding
• spell checking, cooperation with 'make'
• using external tools inside vim
• automation, key mapping
• customizing, plug-ins, templates
• vim7, vimdiff

Advanced nawk programming

• associative arrays
• built-in functions
• user functions
• system function
• complex nawk programming

Writing complex shell scripts

• real-life examples
• guided practice
• cooperative programming

Using unix tools for administrators

• screen
• rdesktop
• gfind, gtar
• a2ps

Advanced ssh techniques and PGP

• using keys (non-interactive login)
• X11 redirection
• secure channels
• creating PGP keys
• keys management
• signing files, verification files

Regular expressions, e/grep and Advanced sed techniques

• constructing complex RE
• constructing ERE
• trickier substitutions using RE
• sed scripting
• logs parsing and processing

Advanced bash constructions

• command line editing and prompting
• using and tuning history
• less-known built-in shell variables
• less-known shell features
• brace expansion
• tilde expansion
• programmable completion
• shell options
• special characters handling
• advanced manipulation with variables
• enhanced 'for' and '[[' construction
• working with patterns
• built-in (enhanced) commands
• read, bind, eval, printf, ulimit
• recursive functions
• creating shell function libraries
• parsing script options with 'getopts'

Data visualization using 'gnuplot'

• data processing using sed/awk
• plotting graphs
• multiple graphs output
• file and terminal output
• programming in gnuplot env.