Table of Contents

1. Short Summary
2. Duration
3. Content Description
4. Objectives
5. Agenda
6. Audience
7. Skill Level
8. Labs?
9. Keywords
10. Prerequisites
11. Enrollment
12. Errata
13. Follow-on Courses

Short Summary

This course enables the basic AIX/UNIX user to perform everyday tasks using the AIX operating system.

Duration in Hours ⌚

24

Content Description

This course enables you to perform everyday tasks using the AIX operating system. Learn to perform everyday tasks using the AIX operating system.

This course provides lectures and hands on labs in an instructor lead course environment, either in a face-to-face classroom or in a live virtual classroom environment (ILO - Instructor Led Online). The lab images are using the AIX 7.2 operating system.

Objectives

• Log in to an AIX system and set a user password
• Use AIX online documentation
• Manage AIX files and directories
• Describe the purpose of the shell
• Use the vi editor
• Execute common AIX commands and manage AIX processes
• Customize the working environment
• Use common AIX utilities
• Write simple shell scripts

Agenda

Day 1

Welcome 

Unit 1: Getting started with AIX  Exercise 1: Getting started with AIX Unit 2: Files and directories  Exercise 2: Files and directories  Unit 3: The vi editor  Exercise 3: The vi editor 

Day 2

Unit 4: Using files  Exercise 4: Using files  Unit 5: File permissions  Exercise 5: File permissions  Unit 6: Shell basics  Exercise 6: Shell basics  Unit 7: Using shell variables  Exercise 7: Using shell variables  Unit 8: Processes 

Day 3

Exercise 8: Processes  Unit 9: Customizing the user environment  Exercise 9: Customizing the user environment  Unit 10: AIX utilities: Part I  Exercise 10: AIX utilities: Part 1 Unit 11: AIX utilities: Part 2 Exercise 11: AIX utilities: Part 2

Wrap-up/Survey

Audience

This basic course is intended for anyone who requires basic AIX/UNIX user skills to be able to work in an AIX environment.

This course is also a prerequisite for many courses in the AIX Systems Administration curriculum.

Skill Level

Basic

Labs? 💻

No

Keywords

AN10G;AN10;Introduction to AIX; File permissions

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with:

• Basic information technology (IT) concepts and the role of an operating system

Enrollment

https://www.ibm.com/training/course/AN10G

Errata

None specified.

Follow-on Courses

AN12G