Chapter Basic Unix Skills

Author: name contact BSD flavour

Reviewer: name contact BSD flavour

Reviewer: Yannick Cadin yannick@diablotin.fr FreeBSD/OpenBSD

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BSD has its roots in Unix and many Unix utilities were originally developed on BSD systems. Demonstrate proficiency in the most commonly used Unix command line utilities.

• Demonstrate proficiency in using redirection, pipes and tees
• Recognize, view and modify environmental variables
• Be familiar with the vi(1) editor
• Determine if a file is a binary, text, or data file
• Locate files and binaries on a system
• Find a file with a given set of attributes
• Create a simple Bourne shell script
• Find appropriate documentation
• Recognize the different sections of the manual
• Verify a file's message digest fingerprint (checksum)
• Demonstrate familiarity with the default shell
• Read mail on the local system
• Use job control
• Demonstrate proficiency with regular expressions
• Overcome command line length limitations
• Understand various "domain" contexts
• Configure an action to be scheduled by cron(8)