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Duration

3 Days

18 CPD hours

This course is intended for

This is an introductory-level course, designed for anyone wanting to learn Linux. Attendees should be comfortable working with computers and the command line, but no other specific skills are required to attend.

Overview

This skills-focused course is about 50% lab to lecture ratio, combining expert instructor-led discussions with practical hands-on labs that emphasize current techniques, best practices and standards. Working in a hands-on lab environment, guided by our expert practitioner, attendees will explore
The Design of Linux
Basic Operations
File System Basics
Wildcards
File and Directory Permissions
Working with files
Executing Programs
Using find
Filters and other useful commands
The vi editor
Customizing the user environment
Networking/Communications
Backups and archiving

This hands-on course provides you with an essentials-level foundation in core skills for using any version of Linux. This course focuses on essential skills that ordinary users might use daily when working with Linux.

The Design of Linux

A brief history of Linux

The Linux design philosophy

Linux architecture

Basic Operations

Logging in and out

The general form of a Linux command

Common commands

Using man pages

Essential commands

File System Basics

The Linux directory structure

Standard directories

Relative and absolute pathnames

Legal file names

Navigating the filesystem

Wildcards

Matching one character

Matching many characters

Shortcuts

Wildcard gotchas

Wildcards and ls

File and Directory Permissions

Viewing permissions

File permissions

Directory permissions

Setting defaults

Changing permissions

Keeping data secure

Working with files

Viewing contents

Identifying file contents

Copying and moving

Deleting

Using symbolic links

Executing Programs

Redirecting STDOUT

Redirecting STDERR

Redirecting STDIN

Creating pipelines

Processes attributes

Listing processes

Killing processes

Foreground & background processes

Using find

Syntax

Finding by name, type, or size

Combining tests

Finding by size, owner, or timestamps

Using xargs with find

Other find options

Filters and other useful commands

What is a filter?

cat: a generic filter

head and tail

grep

sort

other interesting filters

The vi editor

Why vi?

Basic vi operations: navigating, adding, deleting

Advanced operations: buffer management, search and replace, configuration options

Customizing the user environment

About shells

Shell startup files

Shell variables

Search path

Aliases

Simple shell scripts

Networking/Communications

Reading and sending mail

Remote login

Remote file transfer

Other network utilities (ping, finger, etc)

Backups and archiving

Checking space used or available

Creating tar archives

Viewing and extracting files from archives

Compression utilities

Working with windows

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Introduction to Linux (TTLX2103)

By Nexus Human

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