This skills-combines expert instructor-led discussions with hands-on labs designed to provide you practical experience working with Linux to complete tasks and functions users usually encounter on the job. The lessons and exercises always emphasize current techniques, best practices and standards. Working in a hands-on lab environment guided by our expert instructor, you'll explore: 

• Basic Linux Operations 
• File System Basics 
• Wildcards 
• File and Directory Permissions 
• Working with files 
• Executing Programs 
• Using find 
• Filters and other useful commands 
• The vi editor 
• Customizing the user environment 
• Networking/Communications 
• Backups and archiving 

Need different skills or topics? If you or your team require different topics or tools, additional skills or custom approach, this course may be further adjusted to accommodate. We offer additional Unix, Linux, Scripting, administration, networking, programming, database and other related courses which may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your learning objectives.  

This is an introductory-level course, designed for anyone wanting to learn Linux. Attendees should be comfortable working with computers and the command line, but no other specific skills are required to attend. 

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We will work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most. Course agenda, topics and labs are subject to adjust during live delivery in response to student skill level, interests and participation.  

The Design of Linux 

• A brief history of Linux 
• The Linux design philosophy 
• Linux architecture 

Basic Operations 

• Logging in and out 
• The general form of a Linux command 
• Common commands 
• Using man pages 
• Essential commands 

File System Basics 

• The Linux directory structure 
• Standard directories 
• Relative and absolute pathnames 
• Legal file names 
• Navigating the filesystem 

Wildcards 

• Matching one character 
• Matching many characters 
• Shortcuts 
• Wildcard gotchas 
• Wildcards and ls 

File and Directory Permissions 

• Viewing permissions 
• File permissions 
• Directory permissions 
• Setting defaults 
• Changing permissions 
• Keeping data secure 

Working with files 

• Viewing contents 
• Identifying file contents 
• Copying and moving 
• Deleting 
• Using symbolic links 

Executing Programs 

• Redirecting STDOUT 
• Redirecting STDERR 
• Redirecting STDIN 
• Creating pipelines 
• Processes attributes 
• Listing processes 
• Killing processes 
• Foreground & background processes 

Using find 

• Syntax 
• Finding by name, type, or size 
• Combining tests 
• Finding by size, owner, or timestamps 
• Using xargs with find 
• Other find options 

Filters and other useful commands 

• What is a filter? 
• cat: a generic filter 
• head and tail 
• grep 
• sort 
• wc 
• other interesting filters 

The vi editor 

• Why vi? 
• Basic vi operations: navigating, adding, deleting 
• Advanced operations: buffer management, search and replace, configuration options 

Customizing the user environment 

• About shells 
• Shell startup files 
• Shell variables 
• Search path 
• Aliases 
• Simple shell scripts 

Networking/Communications 

• Reading and sending mail 
• Remote login 
• Remote file transfer 
• Other network utilities (ping, finger, etc) 

Backups and archiving 

• Checking space used or available 
• Creating tar archives 
• Viewing and extracting files from archives 
• Compression utilities 
• Working with windows