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3 days
All levels
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
wc
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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