Linux Foundations

Linux Foundations in an introductory class for the Linux operating system. The class covers command usage and basic file system maintenance.

This course is a 4 day class.

Linux Foundations Course Outline

1. Introduction to Linux
   • History of Unix and Linux
   • Linux distributions
   • Logging in
   • Basic commands
   • Getting help
   • The root user

2. Files and Directories
   • File system basics
   • Navigation
   • Creating directories and files
   • Viewing files
   • Finding files

3. The Bash Shell
   • Command line basics
   • Redirection
   • Wildcards
   • Variables
   • Quoting
   • New shells
   • Changing shells
   • Running executables
   • Bash shortcuts
   • Command history
   • Configuration

4. File Permissions
   • Owners and groups
   • File permissions
   • umask
   • Private group scheme
   • Advanced file permissions

5. Text Processing
   • grep
   • Regular expressions
   • Text processing commands
   • sed and awk

6. File Management Utilities
   • Disk usage
   • Compression
   • Archiving

7. The vi Editor
   • History
   • Modes
   • Movement commands
   • Insertion commands
   • Editing commands
   • Search and replace
   • Options and configuration

8. Processes and Jobs
   • Processes
   • init
   • Process utilities
   • Screen

9. Package Management
   • History
   • Tarballs
   • RPM
   • yum

10. SSH
    • Secure shell
    • Configuration
    • File transfers
    • Key management

11. Mounting Filesystems
    • Commands
    • NFS
    • Samba
    • autofs

12. Introduction to Shell Scripting
    • Basic shell script
    • Variables
    • test command
    • Looping structures