Students who can benefit from this course are individuals new to the Solaris OS and persons who perform system administration duties and who are unfamiliar with the UNIX operating system.

• Use a computer
• Enter commands and control characters from a keyboard

• Log in and log out of the Solaris Operating Environment and the Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
• Compose command-line strings to perform Solaris OS functions
• Navigate the Solaris OS file system
• Manipulate text files
• Create files and directories
• Back up and restore user files and directories
• Change permissions of files and directories
• Use the vi text editor
• Identify and modify initialization files
• Use shell features to streamline command execution
• Use basic network commands
• Use commands to search directories and files
• List active user processes and selectively kill user processes

Module 1 - Introducing the Solaris 8 Operating System

• List the four main hardware components of a computer
• Describe the four main components of the Solaris Operating System
• State the three main components of the SunOS operating system
• Identify the shells available in the Solaris Operating System

Module 2 - Accessing the System

• List the characteristics of an effective password
• Log in and log out of a system from the command line
• Log in and log out of a Common Desktop Environment (CDE) session
• Execute basic commands
• Change your password
• Identify and describe the components of a command line
• Use control characters to erase a command line, stop the execution of a command, and stop and start screen output
• Display online manual pages
• Search the online manual pages by keyword
• Identify users logged on to the system using the commands who, who am i, and id
• Enter multiple commands on a single command line

Module 3 - Accessing Files and Directories

• Demonstrate the difference between absolute and relative path names
• Access files and directories within the directory tree using absolute and relative path names
• Use path name abbreviations to access files and directories within the directory tree
• List the contents of directories and determine file types
• Identify various shell metacharacters to abbreviate file names and path names

Module 4 - Directory and File Commands

• Determine file types with the file command
• Display the contents of text files using the cat, more, pg, head, and tail commands
• Determine character, word, and line counts using the wc command
• Create empty files or update modification times on existing files using the touch command
• Use the tee command to create text within a file
• Create and remove directories using the mkdir and rmdir commands
• Manage files and directories using the mv, cp, and rm commands
• Use commands to print a file, check print queue status, and cancel a print request
• Format and print the contents of files using the pr command

Module 5 - Searching for Files and Text

• Use the find command to locate files in the Solaris Operating System directory tree using specific search criteria
• Use the cmp and diff commands to compare the contents of files for differences
• Sort the content of text files in alphabetical and numerical order using the sort command
• Search for regular expressions in the contents of one or more files using the commands grep, egrep, and fgrep

Module 6 - File Security

• Display file and directory permissions
• Define the standard permission types (read/write/execute)
• Use the chmod command to change permissions with symbolic mode or octal mode values
• Determine the default permissions assigned to newly created files and directories with umask

Module 7 - Visual (vi) Editor

• Define the three modes of operation used by the vi editor
• Start the vi editor
• Position and move the cursor in the vi editor
• Switch between vi modes
• Create and delete text
• Copy or move text
• Set vi options
• Perform search and replace functions within the vi editor
• Exit the vi editor

Module 8 - Archiving User Data

• Determine which commands are suitable for storing, viewing, or retrieving different types of files
• Demonstrate how to reduce the size of files and directories and store them to tape using the compress and tar commands
• Describe the steps for uncompressing or viewing a compressed file with the uncompress and zcat commands
• Use the gzip and gunzip commands to compress and uncompress files
• Use the zip command to package and compress multiple files, and use unzip to uncompress a zipped archive file
• Compress and copy multiple files to a single archive file in one step using the jar command
• Copy files to and extract files from an archive file or tape device with the cpio command
• Understand how to use volume management to access CD-ROMs and diskettes
• Use the eject command to remove CD-ROMs and diskettes from device drives

Module 9 - Remote Connections

• Open a session on a remote system using telnet
• Log in remotely to another system on the network
• Use the ftp command to get a file from a remote system

Module 10 - System Processes

• Describe how processes are created
• View active processes on the system using the ps command
• Find a specific process using the pgrep command
• Discuss the purpose of signals for controlling process activity
• End a process using the kill and pkill commands
• Use job control commands to manage jobs running in the shell

Module 11 - The Korn Shell

• Describe the functions of the Korn shell as a command interpreter
• Demonstrate the use of quoting to mask the special meaning of metacharacters by the Korn shell
• Define the terms standard input, standard output, and standard error
• Use metacharacters to redirect standard input, standard output, and standard error
• Connect two or more commands together using the pipe feature
• Implement the file name completion mechanism in the Korn shell
• Use commands to view, set, and unset shell variables
• Invoke the history mechanism to repeat or edit previously executed commands
• Use the alias utility to customize and abbreviate UNIX commands
• Create Korn shell functions to construct customized commands
• Define the Korn shell initialization file used to customize a user's environment

Module 12 - Introducing sed and awk

• Use the stream editor (sed) to edit the contents of a text file from the command line and send the results to standard output
• Issue sed commands to delete lines, print lines containing a pattern, add text to lines, or change characters using regular expression metacharacters
• Use awk to scan text files or standard input to display specific data, change data format, and add text to existing data

Module 13 - Reading Shell Scripts

• Identify which shell program interprets the lines of a shell script
• Explain how command-line arguments are passed to a shell script with special variables called positional parameters
• Demonstrate the use of two conditional commands: if and case, as well as the test command
• Interpret the contents of a simple Bourne shell administration script