Linux Fundamentals Training For Beginners – LNX100

• What is UNIX?
• A Brief History of UNIX
• Logging In
• Logging Out
• Try a Few More Commands
• Changing Your Password
• Using On-line Manuals

The File System – Files

• What is a File?
• The ls Command
• The cat Command
• The more and pg Commands
• The head and tail Commands
• The cp Command
• The mv Command
• The rm Command
• File names

The File System – Directories

• Hierarchical File System
• Pathnames
• The pwd Command – Print Working Directory
• The cd Command – Change Directory
• The mkdir Command – Make Directories
• The rmdir Command – Remove Directories
• The cp Command (again) – Copy Files
• Two useful directory names – . and ..

Editing With vi

• What is vi?
• The vi Buffering Process
• Command Mode and Insert Mode
• Modes Diagram
• Getting Started
• Moving the Cursor Around
• Inserting Text
• Deleting a Character or Line
• Undo Last Command
• Opening a New Line
• Save Your Work or Abort the Session
• Review of vi Commands

More Editing With vi

• Scrolling the Buffer
• Cursor Motion Commands – w, W, b, B, e, E
• Cursor Motion Commands – $, ^, 0, G
• Cursor Motion Commands – f, t, F, T
• Delete Operator – d
• Change Operator – c
• Yank Operator – y
• Put Commands – p, P
• Searching For a Pattern – /, n, N, ?
• The join Command
• The file Command – :f
• Edit file Command – :e
• Cut and Paste Between Files
• Read file Command – :r
• Set options Command
• Set options Command – .exrc file

Personal Utilities

• The date Utility
• The bc Utility
• The expr Utility
• The cal Utility
• The news Utility
• The id Utility
• The uname Utility
• The finger Utility
• The script Utility
• The clear Utility
• Appendix: The at and crontab Utilities

Text Handling Utilities

• The grep Utility
• The tr Utility
• The cut Utility
• The paste Utility
• The sort Utility
• The wc Utility
• The diff Utility
• The lp Utility

File System Security

• File Permissions
• The chmod Utility
• Directory Permissions
• The umask Command

File System Management Utilities

• The find Utility
• The df Utility
• The du Utility
• Compressing Files
• The ln Utility
• The ulimit Utility
• The tar Utility

• The write and talk Utilities
• The mesg Utility
• Mail Overview
• The mail Utility
• The mailx Utility

Using the Shell

• What is a Shell?
• Which Shell?
• The Command Line
• Standard Input, Standard Output and Standard Error
• Using Default Standard In and Standard Output
• I/O Redirection
• Appending Output of a File
• Pipes
• The tee Utility

Filename Generation

• Filename Generation
• The ? special Character
• The * special Character
• The [ ] special Characters
• The ! special Characters

UNIX Processes

• What is a Process?
• Process Structure
• The ps Utility
• Options to the ps Utility
• Background Commands
• Killing Background Processes
• Redirecting the Standard Error

Shell Programming Concepts

• What is a Shell?
• What is a Shell Script?
• Why Use Shell Scripts?

Flow Control

• The Exit Status of Commands
• Command Line Examples
• The test Command
• The if-then-else Construct
• The elif Construct
• A loop Example

Variables

• User Created Variables
• The read Command
• The Shell Environment
• The export Command
• Sub-shells
• Command Substitution
• Quoting Mechanisms
• Assigning Variables – Summary

Special Variables

• Command Line Arguments
• $- Number of Arguments
• The shift Command
• $* – All Arguments
• $$ – PID of Shell

More Flow Control

• The for Loop
  The while Loop
  The Case Construct

Appendix: Korn shell features

• Viewing your Command History
  Editing and Re-executing Commands
  Aliases

— Linux Specific Topics —

Getting Started with Linux

• Linux
• The Toolkit Philosophy
• Linux Distributions
• Free Software and Open Source Movements
• Logging In
• Logging Out
• Try a Few More Commands
• Changing Your Password
• Online Documentation – man Pages
• Online Documentation – info Pages

Networking Utilities – Linux

• Remote Login with telnet
• Remote File Transfer With ftp
• Secure Login With ssh
• Secure File Transfer With scp
• Text-Based Web Access with lynx
• Web Access with wget and curl
• Samba Server Overview
• The smbclient Utility
• NFS File Sharing Overview

X Windows and Desktops – Linux

• The X Window System
• Using X
• Window Managers and Desktops
• The Gnome Desktop
• The KDE Desktop
• Applications: The GIMP
• Applications: OpenOffice
• Applications: Web Browsers