Linux Introduction
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In Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol and 3 other venues
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This course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the LINUX Operating System. The most commonly used commands and utilities are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The course discusses the mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment and the main features of the Bash shell are introduced.
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Subjects
- Linux
- IT
Course programme
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- A brief history of UNIX
- The UNIX kernel
- The UNIX file system
- Getting started navigating the file system
- The file system structure
- Directories and files
- Pathnames
- Navigating the file system
- Exercise: Logging on to the system
- Exercise: Navigating the file system
- Command line syntax
- Basic file handling commands
- Basic Directory handling commands
- Filename wildcard characters
- Exercise: Manipulating files and directories
- Overview of the vi editor
- Basic functions
- Switching to input mode
- Other useful commands
- Exercises: Using the vi editor
- Replacing text
- Using the vi editor
- Using sed for search and replace
- Searching for text with grep
- Linking files
- Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text
- Overview
- The bash shell
- The korn shell
- Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands
- Users and user groups
- File access permissions
- Changing file attributes
- Switching users and user groups
- Linking files
- Exercise: Setting and access permissions
- What is a process?
- Monitoring processes
- Killing processes
- Background processes
- Job Control
- Grouping commands
- Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes
- The wc (word count) command
- The find command
- The cut command
- The sort command
- The finger command
- Exercise: Using file handling commands
- Customising the .bash_profile file
- Customising the .bashrc file
- Exercise: Setting up an environment
Linux Introduction