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Fundamentals of Unix

Course CodeCOMP-430
Lecture hours per week
Lab hours per week
Course AvailabilityOpen
Description

Sponsored by Sun Microsystems. This course teaches students how to use UNIX operating system commands and, in the hands-on exercises, basic Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating environment commands, and introduces you to the Common Desktop Environment (CDE - the graphical interface between different environments). The class is intended for new users of UNIX. Learn fundamentals command-line features of the Solaris environment including file system navigation, file permissions, the vi text editor, command shells and basic network use. CDE features include standard desktop tools, text editor, printing and mail.

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