Course description
This Linux Operating System training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the LINUX Operating System. The most commonly used commands and utilities are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities.
The course discusses the mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment and the main features of the Bash shell are introduced.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Who will the Course Benefit?...
Who will the Course Benefit?Anyone who needs to understand and use the LINUX Operating System.
Course ObjectivesTo provide the skills needed to work productively in the LINUX environment.
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
There are no formal pre-requisites for this Linux Introduction training course, although an understanding of and exposure to information technology and an understanding of operating systems is required.
Training Course Content
Linux Introduction Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- A brief history of UNIX / Linux
- The UNIX / Linux kernel
- The UNIX / Linux file system structure
- File and directory management commands
- Absolute vs Relative Pathnames
- Further basic commands
- Exercise: Navigating the file system
- Command line syntax
- Basic file handling commands
- Basic Directory handling commands
- Filename wildcard characters
- Using commands with logical AND and OR
- Sequential command execution
- Exercise: Manipulating files and directories
- Input and Output redirection
- Redirecting errors
- Piping commands
- Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi/Vim EDITOR- Overview of the vi/Vim editor
- The language of vi
- Undoing and Redoing changes
- Input Mode and Last Line Mode
- Further vi functions
- Executing commands within vi / Vim
- Customising the vi / Vim Environment
- Getting Help
- Exercises: Using the vi editor
- Searching and replacing text using the vi/Vim editor
- Using regular expressions (regex)
- Using sed for search and replace
- Searching for text with grep, egrep and fgrep
- Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text
- Overview
- The bash shell
- The korn shell
- Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands
- Users and user groups
- File access permissions
- Changing file attributes
- Switching users and user groups
- Linking files
- Exercise: Setting and access permissions
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 8: FILTERING AND FORMATTING TEXT- Overview
- The paste command
- The cut command
- An introduction to awk
- The nl command
- Exercises: Filtering Text
- What is a process?
- Monitoring processes
- Killing processes
- Background processes
- Job Control
- Grouping commands
- Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes
- Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
- Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
- Exercise: Setting up an environment
- The find command
- Using xargs command
- The locate command
- The df command
- The cut command
- The sort command
- Finding duplicate content
- Number sequencing
- Exercise: More Basic Commands
Customer Outreach Award
We believe that it should be easy for you to find and compare training courses.
Our Customer Outreach Award is presented to trusted providers who are excellent at responding to enquiries, making your search quicker, more efficient and easier, too.
Reviews
Average rating 4.9
Mark was exceptional, clear and explained things really well. had some great analogies that helped explain more difficult subjects.
Tutor was excellent, showed a breadth of knowledge in the subject, clearly has used the product for years.
Continuing Studies
Further Learning
- Linux Shell Programming
- Linux System Administration (LPI)
- Oracle SQL
- Linux Networking
Request info
Why StayAhead. From a single person on a scheduled course to large scale training projects StayAhead Training have the expertise and experience to help. Established since 1992, StayAhead Training is recognised as one of the leading independent IT Training specialists...
A good, well paced course as an introduction and overview of UNIX/Linux. The trainer, Duncan, did mention that there would be quite a bit of crossover if I were to go on to do t...