Linux Essentials

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Training Description

This hands-on Dashcourses' self-paced Linux Essentials training course will teach you the basics of Linux, a powerful open-source operating system. This class is one in a series of training classes to prepare the student to sit for the Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) exam and the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RCHE) exam.

Training Objectives

As a result of attending this course, you will be able to:

Describe the basics of Linux, and Linux installation
Use the basic to advanced filesystem
Work with users and groups
Use and program the bash shell
Use the vi editor and various text processing tools such as awk and sed
Find things, processes, and network applications

Prerequisites

Attendees should have experience in basic programming usage.

Training Outline

Linux Essentials Training Module OO: Course Introduction

Linux Essentials Training Module 01: Introduction to Linux

Linux history
Advantages of Linux and Open-source
Linux distributions
Three basic parts of Linux

Linux Essentials Training Module 02: Installation

Hardware compatibility
Disk partitioning
Install boot process
Firewall setup

Linux Essentials Training Module 03: Linux Usage Basics

Logging in
Accessing the command line
Changing your password
The root user
Elevating privileges
Editing text files

Linux Essentials Training Module 04: Running Linux Commands

Running commands
Getting help
The whatis command
The --help option
man and info

Linux Essentials Training Module 05: Exploring the Filesystem

Overview of the filesystem hierarchy
pwd, pathname, ls and cd
Copying and removing files
Creating and removing directories
Nautilus
Determing file content, viewing files, file permissions

Linux Essentials Training Module 06: Introduction to the bash Shell

Command line shortcuts and history tricks
Command line expansion
Command editing tricks
gnome-terminal

Linux Essentials Training Module 07: Standard Input/Output and Pipes

Standard input, output and error
Redirecting standard input and output
Redirecting standard error
Redirecting both standard input and standard error
Using pipes

Linux Essentials Training Module 08: Introduction to Users and Groups

Linux security model
Users and Groups
Permission types
Examining and changing permissions

Linux Essentials Training Module 09: Text Processing

Regular expressions
Extracting and manipulating text with sed, awk and Perl

Linux Essentials Training Module 10: Basic System Configuration

Configuring date and time
Configuring printers
Network configuration
System logs

Linux Essentials Training Module 11: The vi Editor

Using vi
Command vs. insert mode

Linux Essentials Training Module 12: Configuring the bash Shell

bash variables
Environment variables
Aliases
Startup and exit scripts
Intro to shell scripting

Linux Essentials Training Module 13: Shell Programming

Create and execute a simple shell program
Using variables
read and expr, || and &&
The test command
if, while, until, for, case

Linux Essentials Training Module 15: Advanced Users and Groups

User and group ID numbers
/etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow
System users and groups
Changing your identity
Default permissions
SUID, SGID and sticky bits

Linux Essentials Training Module 16: Finding Things

which
whatis
man –k (aka. apropos)
find
locate
The Gnome search tool

Linux Essentials Training Module 17: Linux Processes

Intro to processes
Viewing processes, process states
Sending signals and terminating processes
Process management tools
Running a process in the background
Suspending a process
cron and anacron

Linux Essentials Training Module 18: Advanced File System

Partitions and filesystems
Inode numbers
Checking free space
Working with archive files
Compression utilities

Linux Essentials Training Module 19: The Next Steps

Next steps in Linux
Other Linux training classes
The Linux community