Linux Fundamentals (LN4986)

Module 1: What is Linux?

• Unix and its Design Principles
• FSF and GNU
• GPL – General Public License
• The Linux Kernel
• Linux Kernel and Versioning
• Components of a Distribution
• Slackware
• SUSE Linux Products
• Debian
• Ubuntu
• Red Hat Linux Products
• Oracle Linux

Module 2: 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

Module 3: The Linux filesystem

• Filesystem Support
• Unix/Linux Filesystem Features
• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
• Navigating the Filesystem
• Displaying Directory Contents
• Filesystem Structures
• Determining Disk Usage With df and du
• Determining Disk Usage (GUI)
• Disk Usage with Quotas
• File Ownership
• Default Group Ownership
• File and Directory Permissions
• File Creation Permissions with umask
• SUID and SGID on files
• SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
• Changing File Permissions
• User Private Group Scheme

Module 4: Manipulating files

• Directory Manipulation
• File Manipulation
• Deleting and Creating Files
• Managing Files Graphically
• Drag and drop with Nautilus
• Physical Unix File Structure
• Filesystem Links
• File Extensions and Content
• Displaying Files
• Previewing Files
• Producing File Statistics
• Displaying Binary Files
• Searching the Filesystem
• Alternate Search Method

Module 5: Shell basics

• Role of Command Shell
• Communication Channels
• File 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

Module 6: 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

Module 7: 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

Module 8: Regular expressions

• Regular Expression Overview
• Regular Expression Implementations
• Regular Expressions
• RE Character Classes
• Regex Quantifiers
• RE Parenthesis

Module 9: Text editing

• Text Editing
• Pico/GNU Nano
• Pico/Nano Interface
• Nano configuration
• Pico/Nano Shortcuts
• vi and Vim
• Learning Vim
• Basic vi
• Intermediate vi

Module 10: 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

Module 11: 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: prompt
• Setting Resource Limits via ulimit

Module 12: 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

Module 13: Process management and job control

• What is a Process?
• Process Lifecycle
• Process States
• Viewing Processes
• Signals
• Tools to Send Signals
• nohup and disown
• Managing Processes
• Tuning Process Scheduling
• Job Control Overview
• Job Control Commands
• Persistent Shell Sessions with tmux
• Persistent Shell Sessions with Screen
• Using screen
• Advanced Screen

Module 14: AT and CRON

• Automating Tasks
• at/batch
• cron
• The crontab Command
• crontab Format
• /etc/cron.*/ Directories
• Anacron
• Systemd Timers

Module 15: Managing software

• Downloading with FTP
• FTP
• lftp
• Command Line Internet – Non-interactive
• Command Line Internet – Interactive
• Managing Software Dependencies
• Using the Yum & DNF commands
• Using Yum history
• Yum package groups
• Configuring Yum
• dnf download & yumdownloader (deprecated)
• Popular Yum Repositories
• Using the Zypper command
• Zypper Services and Catalogs
• The dselect & APT Frontends to dpkg
• Aptitude
• Configuring APT

Module 16: The secure shell (SSH)

• Secure Shell
• OpenSSH Client & Server Configuration
• Accessing Remote Shells
• Transferring Files
• Alternative sftp Clients
• SSH Key Management
• ssh-agent

Module 17: Mounting filesystems & managing removable media

• Filesystems Concept Review
• Mounting Filesystems
• NFS
• SMB
• Filesystem Table (/etc/fstab)
• AutoFS
• Removable Media

Module 18: Printing

• Legacy Print Systems
• Common UNIX Printing System
• Defining a Printer
• Standard Print Commands
• Format Conversion Utilities
• enscript and mpage