NWGL120 - Linux Fundamentals

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The NWGL120 is a challenging course that focuses on the fundamental tools and concepts of Linux and Unix. The course's focus on proficient use of the command line benefits all skill levels. Beginners develop a solid foundation in Unix, while advanced users discover patterns and fill in gaps in their knowledge. Like all Guru Labs courses, the course material is designed to provide extensive hands-on experience. Topics include: basic file manipulation; basic and advanced filesystem features; I/O redirection and pipes; text manipulation and regular expressions; managing jobs and processes; vi, the standard Unix editor; automating tasks with shell scripts; managing software; secure remote administration; and more.

Prerequisites:

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

Supported Distributions:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 4

SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Recommended Class Length:

5 days

Detailed Course Outline:

What is Linux?
1. UNIX Origins, Design Principles, Time-line
2. Linux Time-line
3. FSF and GNU
4. GPL - General Public License
5. The Linux Kernel
6. Linux Features
7. Popular Uses of Linux
8. What is a Distribution?
9. Components of Distributions
10. Standardization
11. Red Hat
12. Slackware
13. SUSE Linux Products
14. Debian
15. Ubuntu
Multi-User Concepts
1. Multi-User Concepts
2. got root?
3. Logging In
4. Switching User Contexts
5. Gathering Login Session and System Info
6. Help from Commands and Documentation
7. Getting Help with man & info
8. $MANPATH, whatis and apropos
Lab Tasks
1. Login and Discovery
2. Help with Commands
3. Switching Users With su
The X Window System
1. The X Window System
2. Starting X
3. Display Manager Concepts
4. Customizing X Sessions
5. Window Manager Concepts
6. Desktop Environments
7. KDE
8. KDE Control Center
9. KDE Panel
10. KDE Applications
11. GNOME
12. GNOME Preferences
13. GNOME Panel
14. GNOME Applications
Lab Tasks
1. Customize X Components
The Linux Filesystem
1. Filesystem Support
2. UNIX/Linux Filesystem Features
3. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
4. Navigating the Filesystem
5. Displaying Directory Contents
6. Determining Disk Usage
7. Disk Usage with Quotas
8. File Ownership
9. Default Group Ownership
10. File and Directory Permissions
11. File Creation Permissions
12. Changing File Permissions
13. SUID and SGID on files
14. SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
15. User Private Group Scheme
Lab Tasks
1. Files and Directories
2. Disk and Filesystem Usage
3. File and Directory Ownership and Permissions
Manipulating Files
1. Directory Manipulation
2. File Manipulation
3. Deleting and Creating Files
4. Physical Unix File Structure
5. Filesystem Links
6. File Extensions and Content
7. Displaying Files
8. Previewing Files
9. Displaying Binary Files
10. Searching the Filesystem
11. Alternate Search Method
12. Producing File Statistics
Lab Tasks
1. File and Directory Manipulation Commands
2. File Examination & Search Commands
Shell Basics
1. Role of Command Shell
2. Communication Channels
3. File Redirection
4. Piping Commands Together
5. Filename Matching
6. File Globbing and Wildcard Patterns
7. Brace Expansion
8. Shell/Environment Variables
9. Key Environment Variables
10. General Quoting Rules
11. Nesting Commands
12. Multiple and Multi-line Commands
Lab Tasks
1. Connecting Commands
2. Wildcard File Matching
3. Shell Variables
4. Shell Meta-Characters
5. Command Substitution
Archiving and Compression
1. Archive with tar and cpio
2. The gzip Compression Utility
3. The bzip2 Compression Utility
4. The Zip Archiving/Compression format
Lab Tasks
1. Archiving and Compression
Text Processing
1. Searching Inside Files
2. The Streaming Editor
3. Text Processing with awk
4. Replacing Text Characters
5. Text Sorting
6. Duplicate Removal Utility
7. Extracting Columns of Text
8. Merging Multiple Files
Lab Tasks
1. Text Processing
Regular Expressions
1. Regular Expressions Overview
2. Regular Expressions
3. RE Character Classes
4. RE Quantifiers
5. RE Parenthesis
Lab Tasks
1. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
2. Extended Regular Expressions
3. Using Regular Expressions With sed
Text Editing
1. Text Editing
2. Pico/GNU Nano
3. Pico/Nano Interface and Shortcuts
4. Vi and Vim
5. Basic Vi
6. Learning Vi
7. Intermediate Vi
8. Emacs
9. The Emacs Interface
10. Basic Emacs
11. More Emacs Commands
Lab Tasks
1. Text Editing with Nano
2. Text Editing with Vim
3. Text Editing with Emacs
Command Shells
1. Shells
2. Identifying the Shell
3. Changing the Shell
4. sh: Configuration Files
5. sh: Script Execution
6. sh: Prompts
7. bash: Bourne Again Shell
8. bash: Configuration Files
9. bash: Command Line History
10. bash: Command Editing
11. bash: Command Completion
12. bash: shortcuts
13. bash: prompt
Lab Tasks
1. Linux Shells
2. Bash History
3. Aliases
4. Bash Login Scripts
5. The Z Shell
Introduction to Shell Scripting
1. Shell Scripting
2. Example Shell Script
3. Positional Parameters
4. Input & Output
5. Doing Math
6. Comparisons with test
7. Exit Status
8. Conditional Statements
9. Flow Control: case
10. The for Loop
11. The while Loop
Lab Tasks
1. Writing a Shell Script
Process Management and Job Control
1. What is a Process?
2. Process Creation
3. Process States
4. Viewing Processes
5. Signals
6. Tools to Send Signals
7. Job Control Basics
8. Jobs
9. screen
10. Using screen
11. Advanced Screen
Lab Tasks
1. Job Control Basics
2. Process Management and Job Control Basics
3. Screen Basics
4. Using Screen Regions
Managing Software
1. Downloading with FTP
2. FTP
3. lftp
4. wget, lynx & links
5. Intro to Package Management
6. Using the YUM command
7. YUM package groups
8. Configuring YUM
9. Popular YUM Repositories
10. Using the Zypper command
11. Zypper Services and Catalogs
12. The dselect & APT Frontends to dpkg
13. Aptitude
14. Configuring APT
Lab Tasks
1. Command Line File Transfers
2. YUM [RHEL5.4]
3. Zypper [SLES11]
Messaging
1. Command Line Messaging
2. System Messaging Commands
3. Controlling System Messaging
4. Internet Relay Chat
5. Instant Messenger Clients
6. Electronic Mail
7. Sending Email with sendmail
8. Sending Email with mail
9. Sending Email with Pine
10. Evolution
Lab Tasks
1. Command Line Messaging
2. Command line Email
Printing
1. Linux Printer Sub-systems
2. lpd
3. LPRng
4. Common UNIX Printing System
5. Defining a Printer
6. Standard Print Commands
7. Format Conversion Utilities
8. Ghostscript
9. enscript and mpage
Lab Tasks
1. Printing
The Secure Shell (SSH)
1. Secure Shell
2. ssh and sshd Configuration
3. Accessing Remote Shells
4. Transferring Files
5. Alternative sftp Clients
6. SSH Key Management
7. ssh-agent
Lab Tasks
1. Introduction to ssh and scp
2. SSH Key-based User Authentication
3. Using ssh-agent
Mounting Filesystems & Managing Removable Media
1. Filesystems Concept Review
2. Mounting Filesystems
3. NFS
4. SMB
5. Filesystem Table
6. Automating Mounts
7. Removable Media
8. Preparing Floppy Diskettes
9. The mtools Package
10. mtools Commands
Lab Tasks
1. Accessing NFS Shares
2. On-demand filesystem mounting with AutoFS
3. Managing floppy disks
4. Using Mtools with FAT/FAT32 formatted media