This course provides inexperienced users of the SGI IRIX operating system with an opportunity to study and practice using its features. Students will gain practical experience using essential operating system tools, commands, and utilities. The course focuses on IRIX commands entered from a shell window. SGI's IRIX operating system is based on the UNIX® operating system and includes features from both Berkeley and AT&T System V.

Topics Covered

• IRIX operating system overview
• Getting started
• Introduction to utilities
• Using vi
• Customizing your desktop
• Filesystems
• Access permissions
• User communications
• Shell functions
• C shell and T shell
• Backing up and Compressing Files

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Demonstrate use of basic IRIX commands
• Create and modify files with the vi editor
• Navigate the file system
• Create, remove, list, print, and manipulate files and directories
• Control access to files and directories with standard security features
• Enter commands that use shell I/O redirection, pipes, and filters
• Configure the T and C shells environment and utilize their features
• Perform basic communications between networked systems
• Customize and personalize the desktop on an IRIX workstation

This course is intended for:

• Programmers, maintenance personnel, and novice system administrators who have previous experience with computers, but not necessarily either IRIX or UNIX.
• Novice UNIX users who wish to become self-sufficient using IRIX commands to perform tasks on their IRIX workstations.

• Has had daily experience using UNIX commands for the past year.

Instructor-led (Lecture/Lab)

Class Hours

Class starts at 9:00 AM. The course dates and times will be included in the confirmation notice you receive from SGI after you register.

Platforms Covered

All SGI Workstations; Overall command line concepts are release-independent.