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.

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Learning Objectives

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

1

  • The Design of Linux

  • A brief history of Linux
    The Linux design philosophy
    Linux architecture
2

  • Basic Operations

  • Logging in and out
    The general form of a Linux command
    Common commands
    Using man pages
    Essential commands
3

  • File System Basics

  • The Linux directory structure
    Standard directories
    Relative and absolute pathnames
    Legal file names
    Navigating the filesystem
4

  • Wildcards

  • Matching one character
    Matching many characters
    Shortcuts
    Wildcard gotchas
    Wildcards and ls
5

  • File and Directory Permissions

  • Viewing permissions
    File permissions
    Directory permissions
    Setting defaults
    Changing permissions
    Keeping data secure
6

  • Working with files

  • Viewing contents
    Identifying file contents
    Copying and moving
    Deleting
    Using symbolic links
7

  • Executing Programs

  • Redirecting STDOUT
    Redirecting STDERR
    Redirecting STDIN
    Creating pipelines
    Processes attributes
    Listing processes
    Killing processes
    Foreground & background processes
8

  • Using find

  • Syntax
    Finding by name, type, or size
    Combining tests
    Finding by size, owner, or timestamps
    Using xargs with find
    Other find options
9

  • Filters and other useful commands

  • What is a filter?
    cat- a generic filter
    head and tail
    grep
    sort
    wc
    other interesting filters
10

  • The vi editor

  • Why vi?
    Basic vi operations- navigating, adding, deleting
    Advanced operations- buffer management, search and replace, configuration options
11

  • Customizing the user environment

  • About shells
    Shell startup files
    Shell variables
    Search path
    Aliases
    Simple shell scripts
12

  • Networking/Communications

  • Reading and sending mail
    Remote login
    Remote file transfer
    Other network utilities (ping, finger, etc)
13

  • Backups and archiving

  • Checking space used or available
    Creating tar archives
    Viewing and extracting files from archives
    Compression utilities
    Working with windows

Audience

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.

Language

English

Prerequisites

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.

$1,995

Length: 3.0 days (24 hours)

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