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Introduction to Linux (TTLX2103)

Introduction to Linux (TTLX2103)

  • 30 Day Money Back Guarantee
  • Completion Certificate
  • 24/7 Technical Support

Highlights

  • Delivered Online

  • 3 days

  • All levels

Description

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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