This course offers a hands-on introduction to UNIX, the operating system that helped build the Internet. Programmers, researchers, Webmasters, students, and many other people around the world use UNIX.
This course is the second in this series. UNIX Fundamentals II assumes you have taken the prerequisite course, UNIX Fundamentals I, or have equivalent background in UNIX. You must be familiar with at least one other operating system, such as Macintosh, DOS, or Windows. You also must be able to perform common computing tasks, such as moving, copying, creating, and printing files.

After completing the course, you will be able to:

1. Perform additional file management tasks, such as finding files and copying directories
2. Create and manage aliases
3. Customize your UNIX environment
4. Use regular expressions to search for text
5. Perform advanced editing tasks using vi
6. Manage disk space by compressing and archiving files
7. Use ftp to send and retrieve files