Programmer

COURSE OVERVIEW

This course is an extensive introduction focusing on the fundamental tools and concepts of Linux and UNIX. Beginners develop a solid foundation in UNIX, while advanced users discover patterns and fill in gaps in their knowledge. This course is 60 percent lecture and 40 percent hands-on labs.

PREREQUISITES

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

AUDIENCE

System and network administrators
Software developers and programmers
Operators and technical users

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this course you should be able to:

Understand and manage the Linux filesystem
Utilize input and output redirection
Manage file and directory permissions
Use shell basics and advanced features
Edit files with the vi editor
Create basic shell programs

NEXT STEPS

Linux System Administration I (H7091S)

BENEFITS TO YOU

Learn to use your Linux system effectively and save time by automating tasks with shell programs
Customize your Linux system to meet your individual needs

COURSE OUTLINE

Chapter 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

Chapter 2 – Login and Exploration

Logging In
Running Programs
Interacting with Command Line
The X Window System
Starting X
Gathering Login Session Info
Gathering System Info
uptime
got root?
Switching User Contexts
sudo
Help from Commands and Documentation
whereis
Getting Help Within the Graphical Desktop
Getting Help with man & info

Lab Tasks

Login and Discovery
Help with Commands
Switching Users With su

Chapter 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

Lab Tasks

Navigating Directories and Listing Files
Disk and Filesystem Usage
File and Directory Ownership and Permissions

Chapter 4 – Manipulating Files

Directory Manipulation
File Manipulation
Deleting and Creating Files
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

Lab Tasks

Manipulating Files and Directories
File Examination & Search Commands

Chapter 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

Lab Tasks

Redirection and Pipes
Wildcard File Matching
Shell Variables
Shell Meta-Characters
Command Substitution

Chapter 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

Lab Tasks

Archiving and Compression

Chapter 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

Lab Tasks

Processing Text Streams
Text Processing

Chapter 8 – Regular Expressions

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

Lab Tasks

Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
Extended Regular Expressions
Using Regular Expressions With sed

Chapter 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

Lab Tasks

Text Editing with Nano
Text Editing with Vim

Chapter 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

Lab Tasks

Command Line Messaging
Messaging with talkd
Command Line Email
Alpine

Chapter 11 – Command Shells

Shells
Identifying the Shell
Changing the Shell
Configuration Files
Script Execution
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

Lab Tasks

Linux Shells
Bash History
Aliases
Bash Login Scripts
The Z Shell

Chapter 12 – Introduction to Shell Scripting

Shell Script Strengths and Weaknesses
Example Shell Script
Positional Parameters
Input & Output
Doing Math
Comparisons with test
Exit Status
Conditional Statements
Flow Control: case
The for Loop
The while and until Loops

Lab Tasks

Writing a Shell Script

Chapter 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 Screen
Using screen
Advanced Screen

Lab Tasks

Job Control Basics
Process Management Basics
Screen Basics
Using Screen Regions

Chapter 14 – At and Cron

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

Lab Tasks

Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs
Adding System cron Jobs

Chapter 15 – Managing Software

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

Lab Tasks

Command Line File Transfers
Using Yum
Using Zypper
Managing Yum Repositories
Managing Zypper Repositories
Using APT
Adding an APT repository

Chapter 16 – The Secure Shell (SSH)

Secure Shell
ssh and sshd Configuration
Accessing Remote Shells
Transferring Files
Alternative sftp Clients
SSH Key Management
ssh-agent

Lab Tasks

Introduction to ssh and scp
SSH Key-based User Authentication
Using ssh-agent

Chapter 17 – Mounting Filesystems & Managing Removable Media

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

Lab Tasks

Accessing NFS Shares
On-demand filesystem mounting with AutoFS

Chapter 18 – Printing

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

Lab Tasks

Printing
Configuring Print Queues

Appendix A – The X Window System

X Modularity
X.Org Drivers
Configuring X Manually
Automatic X Configuration
Xorg and Fonts
Installing Fonts for Modern Applications
Installing Fonts for Legacy Applications
The X11 Protocol and Display Names
Display Managers and Graphical Login
Starting X Apps Automatically
X Access Control
Remote X Access (historical/insecure)
Remote X Access (modern/secure)
XDMCP
Remote Graphical Access With VNC and RDP
Specialized X Servers

Lab Tasks

Remote X with XDMCP
Configure X Security
Configure a VNC Server
Configure a VNC Server
Configure a VNC Server
Launching X Apps Automatically
Secure X

Appendix A – Emacs

Emacs
The Emacs Interface
Basic Emacs
More Emacs Commands

Lab Tasks

Text Editing with Emacs

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