Linux Basics and Shell Programming Certification Training

Basics of Unix and Linux, System/User Administration, Linux & File Utilities. Learn Shells and Shell Programming (BASH).

What you'll learn
End-to-end knowledge of Unix/Linux systems, administration
Prepare for CompTIA Linux+ Certifications
Shell Programming from scratch
Introduction to Unix/Linux
Unix filesystem (Linux Directories)
Linux Basic Commands
Handling files and directories
Working with vi (visual editor along with 3 modes)
Linux documentation
File utilities - Standard I/O, redirection and pipes, File descriptors, File access rights
Linux Utilities - Disk utilities, Process utilities, Text processing utilities
Compressing and archiving (backup and restore) utilities
User management, time management and shutdown
System administrative basics - Networking, File systems and devices, Package management
Shells and Shell Programming (BASH)
Command line interpreters and SSH
How to write a shell script?
Variables, Quotes, Test commands, Conditional statements, Repetitive statements
Conditional execution, Functions, Signal Handling
Commands such as kill, trap, shift
Command line processing and command line arguments
Processing command line options (getopts)
Utilities: cut, join, tr, awk, sed, uniq, grep

Requirements
Enthusiasm and determination to make your mark on the world!

Description
Linux Basics and Shell Scripting - Course Syllabus

1. Introduction to Unix/Linux
Unix and its history
Introduction to Linux
Login session
Working with the Unix filesystem (Linux Directories)
Linux Basic Commands (ls, pwd, cd, touch, mkdir, rmdir, cp, mv, cat, rm)
Handling files and directories (with metacharacters)
Working with vi (visual editor along with 3 modes)
Linux documentation (along with manual sections including path)

2. File utilities
Standard I/O, redirection and pipes
File descriptors and its related usage of metacharacters (>, >>, <, <<, <<<)
Changing file access rights (users and permissions including both Symbolic and Absolute modes) (chmod)
Soft links and hard links
Checking file integrity

3. Linux Utilities
Disk utilities (du, df)
Process utilities (ps and all options)
Text processing utilities (head, tail, wc, find, grep etc)
Miscellaneous commands
Compressing and archiving (backup and restore) utilities
User management, time management and shutdown (init levels)

4. System Administrative Basics
Networking
File systems and devices
Accessing administrator (root) privileges
Package management

5. Shells and Shell Programming (BASH)
Command line interpreters and SSH
Variables in shell (Local and Global (export))
Environment variables
How to write the script?
Quotes (Single and Double along with variables)
Test commands or [ expr ]
Conditional statements (if … fi, if … else … fi, if … elif … else … fi, case statement)
Repetitive statements (for and while loops)
Conditional execution (&& and ||)
Functions
Signal Handling (Default action, Handling Signals and Ignoring Signals)
Commands such as kill, trap, shift
Command line processing and command line arguments
Processing command line options (getopts)
Utilities: cut, join, tr, awk, sed, uniq, grep

Who this course is for:
Linux/Unix System Administrators
Embedded Linux Software Engineers
Unix and Linux Developers
Anyone aspiring to become Linux and Shell Scripting Programmer
Newbies and beginners having interest in Linux System Administration
Linux Engineers and System Engineers
DevOps Engineers - AWS, Linux, Shell Scripting
System Administrators
Application Developers & Administrators
Senior Server Engineers (Red Hat Linux)
Technical Support Consultants (Unix/Linux)
Network Engineers
Infrastructure Operations Lead
Platform Engineers
Cloud Engineers - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
Software Development Engineers

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