Linux-Unix Fundamentals

Course Overview

• WHAT IS LINUX?
  1. Unix and its Design Principles
  2. FSF and GNU
  3. GPL “ General Public License
  4. The Linux Kernel
  5. Linux Kernel and Versioning
  6. Components of a Distribution
  7. Slackware
  8. SUSE Linux Products
  9. Debian
  10. Ubuntu
  11. Red Hat Linux Products
  12. Oracle Linux
• LOGIN AND EXPLORATION
  1. Logging In
  2. Running Programs
  3. Interacting with Command Line
  4. Desktop Environments
  5. GNOME
  6. Starting X
  7. Gathering Login Session Info
  8. Gathering System Info
  9. uptime & w
  10. got root?
  11. Switching User Contexts
  12. sudo
  13. Help from Commands and Documentation
  14. whereis
  15. Getting Help Within the Graphical Desktop
  16. Getting Help with man & info
  17. $MANPATH, whatis and apropos
  LAB TASKS
  1. Login and Discovery
  2. Help with Commands
  3. Switching Users With su
• THE LINUX FILESYSTEM
  1. Filesystem Support
  2. Unix/Linux Filesystem Features
  3. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
  4. Navigating the Filesystem
  5. Displaying Directory Contents
  6. Filesystem Structures
  7. Determining Disk Usage With df and du
  8. Determining Disk Usage (GUI)
  9. Disk Usage with Quotas
  10. File Ownership
  11. Default Group Ownership
  12. File and Directory Permissions
  13. File Creation Permissions with umask
  14. SUID and SGID on files
  15. SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
  16. Changing File Permissions
  17. User Private Group Scheme
  LAB TASKS
  1. Navigating Directories and Listing Files
  2. Disk and Filesystem Usage
  3. File and Directory Ownership and Permissions
  4. Introduction to Troubleshooting Labs
  5. Troubleshooting Practice: Filesystem
• MANIPULATING FILES
  1. Directory Manipulation
  2. File Manipulation
  3. Deleting and Creating Files
  4. Managing Files Graphically
  5. Drag and drop with Nautilus
  6. Physical Unix File Structure
  7. Filesystem Links
  8. File Extensions and Content
  9. Displaying Files
  10. Previewing Files
  11. Producing File Statistics
  12. Displaying Binary Files
  13. Searching the Filesystem
  14. Alternate Search Method
  LAB TASKS
  1. Manipulating Files and Directories
  2. File Examination & Search Commands
• SHELL BASICS
  1. Role of Command Shell
  2. Communication Channels
  3. File Redirection
  4. Piping Commands Together
  5. Filename Matching
  6. File Globbing and Wildcard Patterns
  7. Brace Expansion
  8. Shell and Environment Variables
  9. Key Environment Variables
  10. Which and Type
  11. General Quoting Rules
  12. Nesting Commands
  LAB TASKS
  1. Redirection and Pipes
  2. Wildcard File Matching
  3. Shell Variables
  4. Shell Meta-Characters
  5. Command Substitution
• ARCHIVING AND COMPRESSION
  1. Archives with tar
  2. Archives with cpio
  3. The gzip Compression Utility
  4. The bzip2 Compression Utility
  5. The XZ Compression Utility
  6. The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format
  7. GNOME File Roller
  LAB TASKS
  1. Archiving and Compression
• TEXT PROCESSING
  1. Searching Inside Files
  2. The Streaming Editor
  3. Text Processing with Awk
  4. Replacing Text Characters
  5. Text Sorting
  6. Duplicate Removal Utility
  7. Extracting Columns of Text
  8. Combining Files and Merging Text
  9. Comparing File Changes
  LAB TASKS
  1. Processing Text Streams
  2. Text Processing
• REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
  1. Regular Expression Overview
  2. Regular Expression Implementations
  3. Regular Expressions
  4. RE Character Classes
  5. Regex Quantifiers
  6. RE Parenthesis
  LAB TASKS
  1. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
  2. Extended Regular Expressions
  3. Using Regular Expressions With sed
• TEXT EDITING
  1. Text Editing
  2. Pico/GNU Nano
  3. Pico/Nano Interface
  4. Nano configuration
  5. Pico/Nano Shortcuts
  6. vi and Vim
  7. Learning Vim
  8. Basic vi
  9. Intermediate vi
  LAB TASKS
  1. Text Editing with Nano
  2. Text Editing with Vim
• MESSAGING
  1. System Messaging Commands
  2. Controlling System Messaging
  3. Internet Relay Chat
  4. Instant Messenger Clients
  5. Electronic Mail
  6. Sending Email with sendmail
  7. Sending and Receiving Email with mailx
  8. Sending and Receiving Email with mutt
  9. Sending Email with Pine
  10. Evolution
  LAB TASKS
  1. Command Line Messaging
  2. Command Line Email
  3. Alpine
• COMMAND SHELLS
  1. Shells
  2. Identifying the Shell
  3. Changing the Shell
  4. Shell Configuration Files
  5. Script Execution
  6. Bourne Shell: Shell Prompts
  7. Bash: Bourne-Again Shell
  8. Bash: Configuration Files
  9. Bash: Command Line History
  10. Bash: Command Editing
  11. Bash: Command Completion
  12. Bash: "shortcuts"
  13. Bash: prompt
  14. Setting Resource Limits via ulimit
  LAB TASKS
  1. Linux Shells
  2. Bash History
  3. Aliases
  4. Bash Login Scripts
  5. The Z Shell
• INTRODUCTION TO SHELL SCRIPTING
  1. Shell Script Strengths and Weaknesses
  2. Example Shell Script
  3. Positional Parameters
  4. Input & Output
  5. Doing Math
  6. Exit Status
  7. Comparisons with test
  8. Conditional Statements
  9. Flow Control: case
  10. The borne for-Loop
  11. The while and until Loops
  LAB TASKS
  1. Writing a Shell Script
• PROCESS MANAGEMENT AND JOB CONTROL
  1. What is a Process?
  2. Process Lifecycle
  3. Process States
  4. Viewing Processes
  5. Signals
  6. Tools to Send Signals
  7. nohup and disown
  8. Managing Processes
  9. Tuning Process Scheduling
  10. Job Control Overview
  11. Job Control Commands
  12. Persistent Shell Sessions with tmux
  13. Persistent Shell Sessions with Screen
  14. Using screen
  15. Advanced Screen
  LAB TASKS
  1. Job Control Basics
  2. Process Management Basics
  3. Screen Basics
  4. Using Screen Regions
  5. Troubleshooting Practice: Process Management
• AT AND CRON
  1. Automating Tasks
  2. at/batch
  3. cron
  4. The crontab Command
  5. crontab Format
  6. /etc/cron.*/ Directories
  7. Anacron
  8. Systemd Timers
  LAB TASKS
  1. Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs
  2. Adding System cron Jobs
  3. Troubleshooting Practice: Automating Tasks
• MANAGING SOFTWARE
  1. Downloading with FTP
  2. FTP
  3. lftp
  4. Command Line Internet “ Non-interactive
  5. Command Line Internet “ Interactive
  6. Managing Software Dependencies
  7. Using the Yum & DNF commands
  8. Using Yum history
  9. Yum package groups
  10. Configuring Yum
  11. dnf download & yumdownloader (deprecated)
  12. Popular Yum Repositories
  13. Using the Zypper command
  14. Zypper Services and Catalogs
  15. The dselect & APT Frontends to dpkg
  16. Aptitude
  17. Configuring APT
  LAB TASKS
  1. Command Line File Transfers
  2. Using Yum
  3. Using Zypper
  4. Managing Yum Repositories
  5. Managing Zypper Repositories
  6. Using APT
  7. Adding an APT repository
• THE SECURE SHELL (SSH)
  1. Secure Shell
  2. OpenSSH Client & Server Configuration
  3. Accessing Remote Shells
  4. Transferring Files
  5. Alternative sftp Clients
  6. SSH Key Management
  7. ssh-agent
  LAB TASKS
  1. Introduction to ssh and scp
  2. SSH Key-based User Authentication
  3. Using ssh-agent
• MOUNTING FILESYSTEMS & MANAGING REMOVABLE MEDIA
  1. Filesystems Concept Review
  2. Mounting Filesystems
  3. NFS
  4. SMB
  5. Filesystem Table (/etc/fstab)
  6. AutoFS
  7. Removable Media
  LAB TASKS
  1. Accessing NFS Shares
  2. On-demand filesystem mounting with AutoFS
• PRINTING
  1. Legacy Print Systems
  2. Common UNIX Printing System
  3. Defining a Printer
  4. Standard Print Commands
  5. Format Conversion Utilities
  6. enscript and mpage
  LAB TASKS
  1. Printing
  2. Configuring Print Queues
• THE X WINDOW SYSTEM
  1. The X Window System
  2. X Modularity
  3. X.Org Drivers
  4. Configuring X Manually
  5. Automatic X Configuration
  6. Xorg and Fonts
  7. Installing Fonts for Modern Applications
  8. Installing Fonts for Legacy Applications
  9. The X11 Protocol and Display Names
  10. Display Managers and Graphical Login
  11. Starting X Apps Automatically
  12. X Access Control
  13. Remote X Access (historical/insecure)
  14. Remote X Access (modern/secure)
  15. XDMCP
  16. Remote Graphical Access With VNC and RDP
  17. Specialized X Servers
  LAB TASKS
  1. Remote X with XDMCP
  2. Configure X Security
  3. Configure a VNC Server
  4. Configure a VNC Server
  5. Configure a VNC Server
  6. Secure X
• EMACS
  1. Emacs
  2. The Emacs Interface
  3. Basic Emacs
  4. More Emacs Commands
  LAB TASKS
  1. Text Editing with Emacs

Prerequisites

Students should be comfortable with computers. No familiarity with Linux or other Unix operating systems is required.