1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello one and all I am a Prof in a University in France and have been handed the "Unix" course and would like to know if anyone has a ready made course to propose to me for beginners, my students are in t heir first year and a few are ok with Unix, however i would like to find a detailed "lesson... (1 Reply)

2. HP-UX

Hi, Does anyone know an easy way of getting the memory usage on a UNIX box? I basically want to find the total % available/in use. Running vmstat gives me 'avm' and 'free' but come in bytes and not percents. Didn't see a switch in sar that just gave me the memory stats similar to Sun's -r... (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi guys! Am new to this forum so would like to say hello to all. Was wondering, what the best way to learn UNIX was? Theoretically or Practically? Cheers (2 Replies)

4. What is on Your Mind?

Alright I am looking to further my knowledge and experiance with computers (Currently a PC technician but not much knowledge with other operating systems like unix/linux). What im trying to do now is get a basic understanding of unix and its commands, unix shells, the unix directory structure, and... (5 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I learned Unix about 6 years ago, I think it was the System V version back then. My course taught me, Unix commands, shell scripting, Vi editor, and probably more stuff. I wanted to stick with Unix but life didn't allow me to, my college back then used Windows 95 and then my job as a... (8 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, and thanks for viewing this thread. I have never used the terminal (UNIX) before, not until I read an introductory book about it: Unix for Mac OS X Tiger. Now I've become intrigued, and I want to uncover more of the mysteries of Unix. I've searched and searched, but there are many books... (5 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I am wondering, is there a core book or instruction DVD that I can learn from and be functional in UNIX with. I know a lot of the basic commands and I just figured out how to create a file but, I want to be able to handle this with no problem. (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, i have started to learn unix (on and off for the past few months) and am wishing to move into that area in the administration field of it. I have been working in the help desk area (desktop support - windows based) for about 2.5 years and moved into a team leading role for 1 year in which i... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Everyone, I know nothing about Solaris / Linux / AIX but I know they are all part of Unix. I have been using Windows the last 15years and I have been a LAN admin, I am now working in IT Operations and we use some solaris commands but not much plus its from following a document so we can't... (1 Reply)

10. What is on Your Mind?

Hi Guys , Hope everybody is fine . I am here to learn UNIX . Please provide any URLs/pdfs for learning . Thanks in advance. -Radha ---------- Post updated at 07:59 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:48 PM ---------- Just to add , I am good at basics but unable to write scripts... (4 Replies)