LINUX Introduction
Duration: 3 Days
Introduction
This course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the LINUX Operating System. The most commonly used commands are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Bash Shell are introduced. The GNOME and KDE environments will also be explored
The delegates will practise: -
- Creating, copying, renaming, moving and deleting files and directories
- Using the shell’s redirection and pipe facilities
- Editing text files using the vi editor
- Setting and changing access permissions on files
- Monitoring and controlling their own processes
- Using the basic file and text searching utilities
- Customising their own login environment
- Use and customise the graphical systems
Who is the course for?
Anyone who needs to understand and use the LINUX Operating System. Those students who will be looking to gain Red Hat or LPI Linux certifications
There are no formal pre-requisites, although an understanding of and exposure to information technology is advantageous.
The Course will be conducted on Fedora Linux Version 4.
Course Objective
To provide the skills needed to work productively in a LINUX environment.
COURSE CONTENTS
Introduction Administration and course materials
Course structure and agenda
Delegate and trainer introductions
Session 1 Introduction to the LINUX Operating System
A brief history of UNIX and LINUX
GNU project/ FSF
GPL – GNU General Public license (Copyleft)
Popular versions of LINUX available
The LINUX kernel
Overview of commands and utilities
The graphical user interfaces available
A LINUX login session from the command line
Basic Syntax rules.
Essential keyboard shortcuts
Session 2 The LINUX GNOME/KDE Desktops
The GNOME and KDE desktops
Fedora Bluecurve theme and X Windows
Configuring and switching between desktops
Web browsers
Office suites
File managers – Nautilus & konqueror
Session 3 Basic Commands
Basic file handling commands
Directory handling commands
Filename wildcard characters
Bash built in features
Locating files : locate,slocate
Getting Help – man pages, info, /usr/share/doc
Session 4 The LINUX File System
The file system structure
Directories and files
Pathnames : relative and absolute
Navigating the file system
Navigating using file managers – konqueror/nautilus
Backup and compression
Managing files : head,tail,less etc.
Managing floppy disk and filesystems
Session 5 File Access Control
Users and groups
User information commands
File access permissions
Changing file attributes
Default file permissions
Switching users and user groups
Extended file permissions
Session 6 Redirection and Pipes
Input and Output redirection
Association
Overwriting and appending redirection
Using pipes to connect processes together
Teeing output within pipelines
Combining redirection and pipes
Session 7 The vi/vim Editors
Introduction to text file editing
How to use the vim editor
Copying, moving, editing and deleting text
Search and replace features
Reading and writing files
Using regular expressions within vi/vim
Advanced vim topics
Session 8 Processes
What is a process?
System and user processes
Process ancestry and states
Monitoring processes
Killing processes
Background processes
Using Job control
Altering Process scheduling priorities
Compound statements
Session 9 String processing and regular expressions
Sort, uniq,cut diff & paste : string processing
Regular expressions
Using grep & sed with regular expressions
The awk program
Using awk and regular expressions
Other string processing commands
Session 10 The Bash Environment
What is an environment?
The Bash Shell environment
Environment variables and aliases
The system/user profile
The bash login sequence
Command line history and editing
Extended bash functionality
Scripting basics
Creating and executing shell scripts
Session 11 Basic Networking commands
Using the secure shell : ssh
Copying files with scp
Telnet and the “r” commands
Usinf ftp clients
Network diagnostic tools
Conclusion Course summary
Course assessment
