Linux Fundamentals

Course Details

• What is Linux?
• UNIX Origins, Design Principles, Time line
• FSF and GNU
• GPL - General Public License
• The Linux Kernel
• Linux Features
• Popular Uses of Linux
• What is a Distribution?
• Components of Distributions
• Slackware and Mandriva
• Red Hat, SUSE Linux Products, Debian and 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 & w, got root?, Switching User Contexts
• sudo, Help from Commands and Documentation
• whereis, Getting Help Within the Graphical Desktop
• Getting Help with man & info, $MANPATH, whatis and apropos
• 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
• Determining Disk Usage (GUI)
• Disk Usage with Quotas
• File Ownership, Default Group Ownership, File and Directory Permissions
• File Creation Permissions, Changing File 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, Troubleshooting Practice: Filesystem
• Manipulating Files
• Directory Manipulation
• File Manipulation
• Deleting and Creating Files
• Physical Unix File Structure
• Filesystem Links
• File Extensions and Content
• Displaying Files, Previewing Files, Displaying Binary Files , Searching the Filesystem
• Alternate Search Method
• LAB TASKS, Manipulating Files and Directories, File Examination & Search Commands
• SHELL BASICS
• Role of Command Shell
• Communication ChannelsFile 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 Expression Implementations
• 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,
• Shell Configuration Files, Script Execution,
• Bourne Shell: Shell Prompts
• Bash: Bourne-Again Shell, Bash: Configuration Files
• Bash: Command Line History, Bash: Command Editing
• Bash: Command Completion
• Bash: "shortcuts", 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
• Process Management and Job Control
• What is a Process?
• Process Creation
• Process States
• Viewing Processes
• Signals
• Tools to Send Signals
• Job Control Basics
• Jobs screen
• Using screen
• Advanced Screen
• Introduction to Shell Scripting
• Shell Script Strengths and Weaknesses
• Example Shell Script, Positional Parameters,
• Input & 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
• AT AND CRON
• Automating Tasks
• at/batch
• cron
• The crontab Command
• crontab Format
• /etc/cron.*/ Directories
• Anacron
• Systemd Timers
• LAB TASKS, Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs, Adding System cron JobsTroubleshooting Practice: Automating Tasks
• Printing
• Linux Printer Sub-systems
• lpd
• LPRng
• Common UNIX Printing System
• Configuring Print Queues
• Standard Print Commands
• Format Conversion Utilities
• Ghostscript
• enscript and mpage
• Mounting Filesystems & 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
• The X Window System
• X Modularity, X.Org Drivers, Configuring X Manually,
• Automatic X Configuration
• Xorg and Fonts, Installing Fonts for Modern Applications
• Installing Fonts for Legacy Applications
• The X11 Protocol and Display Names
• Display Managers and Graphical Login
• Starting X Apps Automatically, X Access Control
• Remote X Access (historical/insecure) and (modern/secure)
• XDMCP, Remote Graphical Access With VNC and RDP, Specialized X Servers
• LAB TASKS, Remote X with XDMCP, Configure X Security, Configure a VNC Server
• Configure a VNC Server, Configure a VNC Server, Launching X Apps Automatically, Secure X
• 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 & APT Frontends to dpkg,
• Aptitude, Configuring APT
• LAB TASKS, Command Line File Transfers, Using Yum, Using Zypper
• Managing Yum Repositories, Managing Zypper Repositories, Using APT, Adding an APT repository
• THE SECURE SHELL (SSH)
• Secure Shell
• OpenSSH Client & 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
• EMACS
• Emacs
• The Emacs Interface
• Basic Emacs
• More Emacs Commands
• LAB TASKS, Text Editing with Emacs