Course duration
- 5 days
Course Benefits
- Learn fundamental tools and concepts of Linux and Unix.
- Become proficient using the command line.
- Develop a solid foundation in Unix.
- Discover patterns and fill in gaps in any existing Linux knowledge.
- Manipulate files.
- Learn file system features.
- Learn to automate tasks with shell scripts.
- Learn to manage software and secure remote administration.
Available Delivery Methods
Public Class
Public expert-led online training from the convenience of your home, office or anywhere with an internet connection. Guaranteed to run .
Public expert-led online training from the convenience of your home, office or anywhere with an internet connection. Guaranteed to run .
Private Class
Private classes are delivered for groups at your offices or a location of your choice.
Private classes are delivered for groups at your offices or a location of your choice.
Course Outline
- What Is Linux?
- Unix and its Design Principles
- FSF and GNU
- GPL – General Public License
- The Linux Kernel
- Linux Kernel and Versioning
- Components of a Distribution
- Slackware
- SUSE Linux Products
- Debian
- Ubuntu
- Red Hat Linux Products
- Oracle Linux
- Login and Exploration
- Logging In
- Running Programs
- Interacting with Command Line
- Desktop Environments
- GNOME
- Starting X
- Gathering Login Session Info
- Gathering System Info
- uptime and w
- got root?
- Switching User Contexts
- sudo
- Help from Commands and Documentation
- whereis
- Getting Help Within the Graphical Desktop
- Getting Help with man and info
- Lab Tasks
- Login and Discovery
- Help with Commands
- Switching Users With su
- The Linux Filesystem
- Filesystem Support
- Unix/Linux Filesystem Features
- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
- Navigating the Filesystem
- Displaying Directory Contents
- Filesystem Structures
- Determining Disk Usage With df and du
- Determining Disk Usage (GUI)
- Disk Usage with Quotas
- File Ownership
- Default Group Ownership
- File and Directory Permissions
- File Creation Permissions with umask
- SUID and SGID on files
- SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
- Changing File Permissions
- User Private Group Scheme
- Lab Tasks
- Navigating Directories and Listing Files
- Disk and Filesystem Usage
- File and Directory Ownership and Permissions
- Introduction to Troubleshooting Labs [R7 S12]
- Troubleshooting Practice: Filesystem [R7 S12]
- Manipulating Files
- Directory Manipulation
- File Manipulation
- Deleting and Creating Files
- Managing Files Graphically
- Drag and drop with Nautilus
- Physical Unix File Structure
- Filesystem Links
- File Extensions and Content
- Displaying Files
- Previewing Files
- Producing File Statistics
- Displaying Binary Files
- Searching the Filesystem
- Alternate Search Method
- Lab Tasks
- Manipulating Files and Directories
- File Examination and Search Commands
- Shell Basics
- Role of Command Shell
- Communication Channels
- File Redirection
- Piping Commands Together
- Filename Matching
- File Globbing and Wildcard Patterns
- Brace Expansion
- Shell and Environment Variables
- Key Environment Variables
- Which and Type
- General Quoting Rules
- Nesting Commands
- Lab Tasks
- Redirection and Pipes
- Wildcard File Matching
- Shell Variables
- Shell Meta-Characters
- Command Substitution
- Archiving and Compression
- Archives with tar
- Archives with cpio
- The gzip Compression Utility
- The bzip2 Compression Utility
- The XZ Compression Utility
- The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format
- GNOME File Roller
- Lab Tasks
- Archiving and Compression
- Text Processing
- Searching Inside Files
- The Streaming Editor
- Text Processing with Awk
- Replacing Text Characters
- Text Sorting
- Duplicate Removal Utility
- Extracting Columns of Text
- Combining Files and Merging Text
- Comparing File Changes
- Lab Tasks
- Processing Text Streams
- Text Processing
- Regular Expressions
- Regular Expression Overview
- Regular Expressions
- RE Character Classes
- Regex Quantifiers
- RE Parenthesis
- Lab Tasks
- Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
- Extended Regular Expressions
- Using Regular Expressions With sed
- Text Editing
- Text Editing
- Pico/GNU Nano
- Pico/Nano Interface
- Nano configuration
- Pico/Nano Shortcuts
- vi and Vim
- Learning Vim
- Basic vi
- Intermediate vi
- Lab Tasks
- Text Editing with Nano
- Text Editing with Vim
- Messaging
- System Messaging Commands
- Controlling System Messaging
- Internet Relay Chat
- Instant Messenger Clients
- Electronic Mail
- Sending Email with sendmail
- Sending and Receiving Email with mailx
- Sending and Receiving Email with mutt
- Sending Email with Pine
- Evolution
- Lab Tasks
- Command Line Messaging
- Messaging with talkd
- Command Line Email
- Alpine
- Command Shells
- Shells
- Identifying the Shell
- Changing the Shell
- Configuration Files
- Script Execution
- Shell Prompts
- Bash: Bourne-Again Shell
- Bash: Configuration Files
- Bash: Command Line History
- Bash: Command Editing
- Bash: Command Completion
- Bash: "shortcuts"
- Bash: prompt
- Setting Resource Limits via ulimit
- Lab Tasks
- Linux Shells
- Bash History
- Aliases
- Bash Login Scripts
- The Z Shell
- Introduction to Shell Scripting
- Shell Script Strengths and Weaknesses
- Example Shell Script
- Positional Parameters
- Input and Output
- Doing Math
- Exit Status
- Comparisons with test
- Conditional Statements
- Flow Control: case
- The borne for-Loop
- The while and until Loops
- Lab Tasks
- Writing a Shell Script
- Process Management and Job Control
- What is a Process?
- Process Lifecycle
- Process States
- Viewing Processes
- Signals
- Tools to Send Signals
- nohup and disown
- Managing Processes
- Tuning Process Scheduling
- Job Control Overview
- Job Control Commands
- Persistent Shell Sessions with Screen
- Using screen
- Advanced Screen
- Lab Tasks
- Job Control Basics
- Process Management Basics
- Screen Basics
- Using Screen Regions
- Troubleshooting Practice: Process Management [R7 S12]
- AT and CRON
- Automating Tasks
- at/batch
- cron
- The crontab Command
- crontab Format
- /etc/cron.*/ Directories
- Anacron
- Lab Tasks
- Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs
- Adding System cron Jobs
- Troubleshooting Practice: Automating Tasks [R7 S12]
- Managing Software
- Downloading with FTP
- FTP
- lftp
- Command Line Internet – Non-interactive
- Command Line Internet – Interactive
- Managing Software Dependencies
- Using the Yum command
- Using Yum history
- YUM package groups
- Configuring Yum
- yumdownloader
- Popular Yum Repositories
- Using the Zypper command
- Zypper Services and Catalogs
- The dselect and APT Frontends to dpkg
- Aptitude
- Configuring APT
- Lab Tasks
- Command Line File Transfers
- Using Yum [R7]
- Using Zypper [S12]
- Managing Yum Repositories [R7]
- Managing Zypper Repositories [S12]
- Using APT [U1604]
- Adding an APT repository [U1604]
- The Secure Shell (SSH)
- Secure Shell
- OpenSSH Client and Server Configuration
- Accessing Remote Shells
- Transferring Files
- Alternative sftp Clients
- SSH Key Management
- ssh-agent
- Lab Tasks
- Introduction to ssh and scp
- SSH Key-based User Authentication
- Using ssh-agent
- Mounting Filesystems and Managing Removable Media
- Filesystems Concept Review
- Mounting Filesystems
- NFS
- SMB
- Filesystem Table (/etc/fstab)
- AutoFS
- Removable Media
- Lab Tasks
- Accessing NFS Shares
- On-demand filesystem mounting with AutoFS
- Printing
- Legacy Print Systems
- Common UNIX Printing System
- Defining a Printer
- Standard Print Commands
- Format Conversion Utilities
- enscript and mpage
- Lab Tasks
- Printing
- Configuring Print Queues
Class Materials
Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Class Prerequisites
Experience in the following is required for this Linux class:
- Basic knowledge of computer hardware, software, and operating systems.
- No familiarity with Linux or other Unix operating systems is required.
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Instructor-led courses are offered via a live Web connection, at client sites throughout Europe, and at our Geneva Training Center.