Course 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
• 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

Session 2: BASIC COMMANDS

• Command line syntax
• Basic file handling commands
• Basic Directory handling commands
• Filename wildcard characters
• Exercise:   Manipulating files and directories

Session 3: REDIRECTION AND PIPES

• Input redirection
• Output redirection
• Pipes
• Exercise:   Using redirection and pipe facilities

Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi EDITOR

• Overview of the vi editor
• Basic functions
• Switching to input mode
• Other useful commands
• Exercises:   Using the vi editor

Session 5: SEARCHING AND REPLACING TEXT

• Replacing text
• Using the vi editor
• Using sed for search and replace
• Searching for text with grep
• Linking files
• Exercises:   Searching and Replacing Text

Session 6: RECALLING AND EDITING COMMANDS

• Overview
• The bash shell
• The korn shell
• Exercises:   Recall and Edit Commands

Session 7: FILE PERMISSIONS AND ACCESS CONTROL

• Users and user groups
• File access permissions
• Changing file attributes
• Switching users and user groups
• Linking files
• Exercise:   Setting and access permissions

Session 8: PROCESSES

• What is a process?
• Monitoring processes
• Killing processes
• Background processes
• Job Control
• Grouping commands
• Exercise:   Monitoring and controlling processes

Session 9: MORE BASIC COMMANDS

• The wc (word count) command
• The find command
• The cut command
• The sort command
• The finger command
• Exercise:   Using file handling commands

Session 10: THE USER ENVIRONMENT

• Customising the .bash_profile file
• Customising the .bashrc file
• Exercise:   Setting up an environment