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This face-to-face, Bloomsbury campus-based course is designed as a beginner's guide to the Unix and Linux operating systems.

If you are already familiar with the UNIX command line, this course is not likely to be suitable and you should consider the Further Unix course which concentrates on data manipulation with command line tools such as grep and awk.

Because of its in-built strengths in network computing, multi-threading, multi-user computing Unix forms one of the backbone technologies of the World Wide Web and as Linux is becoming increasingly popular as an operating system on desktop computers. The course covers the most basic and frequently used Unix / Linux commands and introduces important concepts in security and managing your computing environment.

Once you have booked on the course you will be able to access all of the online materials in our Moodle course.

Once you have enrolled, please check that you have received a confirmation email from MyLearning. You will also receive an email with location details at least one day before the session.

Please arrive 10 - 15 minutes prior to the start of the course to allow time for logging in and downloading resources.

For more details on how to book, cancel and join sessions please visit our practical course information page .

• State what Unix/Linux is
• List some distributions of Unix/Linux
• Explain how Unix stores files
• Explain how variables are related to shells
• Use appropriate commands to identify present directory and change directory
• Use appropriate commands to view contents of current directory
• Use appropriate commands to create and delete directories
• Use appropriate commands to create, move, rename and delete files
• Use appropriate commands to preview files
• Use regular expressions to search files for a specified string
• Use appropriate commands to redirect output
• Explain file and directory access permissions
• Use appropriate commands to amend access permissions to files and directories
• Create and execute a simple script