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Chapter Basic Unix Skills

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


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)
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