Unix Fundamentals

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course content details

	Chapter 1 - Multi-user Concepts

	Multi-user Concepts
	got root?
	Logging In
	Switching User Contexts
	Gathering Login Session Info
	Gathering System Info
	Getting Help with man & info
	MANPATH, whatis and apropos
	Help from Commands and Documentation
	Lab Tasks: 1. Login and Discovery, 2. Help with Commands, 3. Switching Users With su

	Chapter 2 - The Linux Filesystem 1

	Filesystem Support
	LINUX Filesystem Features
	Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
	Navigating the Filesystem
	Displaying Directory Contents
	Determining Disk Usage
	Disk Usage with Quotas
	File Ownership
	Default Group Ownership
	File and Directory Permissions
	File Creation Permissions
	Changing File Permissions
	SUID and SGID on files
	SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
	User Private Group Scheme
	Lab Tasks: 1. Files and Directories
	2. Disk and Filesystem Usage
	3. File and Directory Ownership and Permissions

	Chapter 3 - Manipulating Files

	Directory Manipulation
	File Manipulation
	Deleting and Creating Files
	Physical Unix File Structure
	Filesystem Links
	File Extensions and Content
	Displaying Files
	Previewing Files
	Displaying Binary Files
	Searching the Filesystem
	Alternate Search Method
	Producing File Statistics
	Lab Tasks: 1. File and Directory Manipulation Commands
	2. File Examination & Search Commands

	Chapter 4 - Shell Basics

	Role of Command Shell
	Communication Channels
	File Redirection
	Piping Commands Together
	Filename Matching
	Wildcard Patterns / Globbing
	Brace Expansion
	Shell/Environment Variables
	Key Environment Variables
	General Quoting Rules
	Nesting Commands
	Lab Tasks: 1. Connecting Commands
	2. Wildcard File Matching
	3. Shell Variables
	4. Shell Meta-Characters
	5. Command Substitution

	Chapter 5 - Regular Expressions

	Regular Expression Overview
	Regular Expressions
	RE Character Classes
	RE Quantifiers
	RE Parenthesis
	Lab Tasks: 1. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
	2. Extended Regular Expressions
	3. Using Regular Expressions With sed

	Chapter 6 - Archiving and Compression

	Archiving and Compression
	Directory Archive with tar
	Directory Archive with cpio
	The compress Utility
	The gzip Compression Utility
	The bzip2 Compression Utility
	The zip Compression Utility
	Lab Tasks: 1. Archiving and Compression

	Chapter 7 - Text editing

	Text Editing
	Pico/GNU Nano
	Pico/Nano Interface
	Pico/Nano Shortcuts
	Vi and Vim
	Basic Vi
	Learning Vi
	Intermediate Vi
	Emacs
	The Emacs Interface
	Basic Emacs
	More Emacs Commands
	Lab Tasks: 1. Text Editing with Pico/Nano
	2. Text Editing with Vim
	3. Text Editing with Emacs

	Chapter 8 - Command Shells

	Shells
	Shells continued
	Identifying the Shell
	Changing The Shell
	sh: Configuration Files
	sh: Script Execution
	sh: Prompts
	bash: Bourne Again Shell
	bash: Configuration Files
	bash: Command Line History
	bash: Command Editing
	bash: Command Completion
	bash: "shortcuts"
	bash: prompt
	Lab Tasks
	1. Linux Shells
	2. Bash History
	3. Aliases
	4. Bash Login Scripts
	5. The Z Shell

	Appendices (Optional) - 1. Text Processing

	Searching Inside Files
	The Streaming Editor
	Text Processing with awk
	Replacing Text Characters
	Text Sorting
	Duplicate Removal Utility
	Extracting Columns of Text
	Merging Multiple Files
	Lab Tasks:1. Text Processing

	2. Introduction to Shell Scripting

	Shell Scripting
	Example Shell Script
	Positional Parameters
	Input & Output
	Doing Math
	Comparisons with test
	Conditional Statements
	The for Loop
	The while Loop
	Lab Tasks

	3. Process Management and Job Control

	What is a Process?
	Process Creation
	Process States
	Viewing Processes
	Signals
	Tools to Send Signals
	Job Control Basics
	Jobs
	Screen
	Using screen
	Advanced Screen
	Lab Tasks: 1. Job Control Basics
	2. Process Management and Job Control Basics
	3. Screen Basics
	4. Using Screen Regions