This comprehensive two-day course aims to equip the novice Linux user with all the skills necessary to navigate the system and make productive use of the tools available, including the Windows systems, the vi editor and essential Linux commands. It also forms the necessary foundation for subsequent Linux courses.
Course Features
- Lectures 0
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 2 Days
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Yes
Linux/UNIX overview
- What are Linux and Unix
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Basic command examples
- Other versions of Unix
- Future of Linux
- Availability, licensing and support
Getting started
- Logging in and out
- Keyboard basics
- Files, directories and path names
- Creating and examining files
- Effective use of directories
- Moving, copying and removing files
- Basic system password security
- Documentation and the man command
- Common problems
The vi editor
- Invoking vi
- Insert and Append
- Moving around the text
- Deleting text. Change operators
- Other insert operators
- Searching for text
- Search and replace
- Saving and quitting
The next stage
- Introduction to Linux shells
- Bash shell interaction
- Re-direction and piping
- Shell metacharacters
- The history mechanism, and command line editing facilities
- The shell quoting mechanism
- Setting up and using aliases
- Process control
- More complex copying and moving
- Protecting files and directories
- Shell variables and setting up the environment
- Environment variables
- Introduction to Linux utilities such as grep, gawk, sort and find
Windows Environments
- A guide to the window Managers available under Linux
- Graphical login, and starting windows from the command line
- An examination of the major tools available
- Front Panel, File Managers, and the Help system
- Other useful window utilities and tools
- Customizing the Workspace and setting basic user preferences
Introduction to networking
- Introduction to network concepts
- Ethernet overview
- Network basic commands (including logging in to other machines)
- Network File System (NFS) – overview, benefits and uses
- Web browsers and web servers technical overview