Section 1 - What is Linux?

• UNIX Origins, Design Principles and Timeline
• FSF, GNU, and GPL - General Public License
• The Linux Kernel and Linux Features
• What is a Distribution?
• SLS, Slackware, Mandriva, and Debian
• SUSE Linux Products
• Role Specific Distros
• Standardization

Section 2 - Multi-User Concepts

• Multi-User Concepts
• got root?
• Switching User Contexts
• Gathering Login Session Info
• Getting Help

Lab 2 - Login and Discovery

• Login to the workstation using a virtual console and GUI interface.
• Use commands to gather information about the current login and the other users on the system.
• Use a variety of help tools to discover more information about the commands.
• Use and explore the use of the su command.
• Observe the operation differences between su and su -.

Section 3 - The Linux Filesystem

• LINUX Filesystem Features
• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
• Navigating the Filesystem
• Displaying Directory Contents
• Determining Disk Usage
• Disk Usage with Quotas
• File Ownership
• File and Directory Permissions
• File Creation Permissions
• Changing File Permissions
• SUID and SGID on files
• SGID and Sticky Bit - Directories
• User Private Group Scheme

Lab 3 - Files and Directories

• Use the various commands to navigate the directories on the workstation.
• Display the characteristics of some files and directories.
• Use df to see how much hard drive space is being used by the filesystem(s)
• Use du to show disk usage of all files in a certain directory
• Display, then change , the ownership of some of the files and directories on the workstation
• Use commands to display, change, and set permissions for the different files and directories on the workstation

Section 4 - Manipulating Files

• Directory Manipulation
• File Manipulation
• File Creation and Removal
• Physical Unix File Structure
• Filesystem Links
• File extensions and content
• Displaying Files
• Previewing Files
• Searching the filesystem
• Alternate Search Method
• Producing File Statistics

Lab 4 - File Management

• Explore commands that are useful when doing file and directory management
• Use commands to display the contents of text files
• Use find and locate to search for files

Section 5 - 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 5 - Text Processing

• Using standard UNIX filters to modify and sort text

Section 6 - Shell Basics

• Role of Command Shell
• Communication Channels
• File Redirection
• Piping Commands Together
• Filename Matching
• Wildcard Patterns/Globbing
• Brace Expansion
• Shell/Environment Variables
• Environment Variables
• General Quoting Rules
• Nesting Commands

Lab 6 - Shell Basics

• Use I/O redirection commands
• Use | (pipe) to chain commands
• Glob using wildcard patterns
• Configure a shell variable
• Use the export command to create an environment variable
• Escaping shell meta-characters
• Command substitution using backquotes and the $(command) form

Section 7 - Regular Expressions

• Regular Expression Overview
• Regular Expressions

Lab 7 - Regular Expressions

• Use regular expressions with grep to search for character patterns
• Practice some advanced RegEx?s with egrep
• Use sed to perform text editing on a file using regular expressions

Section 8 - Archiving and Compression

• Directory Archive with tar and cpio
• The compress utility
• The gzip and bzip2 compression utilities

Lab 8 - Archiving and Compression

• Use archiving and compression commands

Section 9 Text Editing

• Text editing
• Pico/GNU Nano
• Pico/Nano Interface and Commands
• Vi:  Basic and Advanced Vi
• Advanced Vi Commands
• Emacs and Emacs Interface
• Basic and Advanced Emacs Commands

Lab 9 - Text Editing

• Use the pico or nano editor to create and efficiently modify text files
• Use the vim editor: motion, editing
• Use the Emacs editor: motions, kill, yank, undo, search and search-query commands

Section 10 - Command Shells

• Shells
• Identifying and Changing the Shell
• sh: Configuration Files
• sh: Script Execution
• sh: Prompts
• bash: Bourne Again Shell
• bash: Configuration Files
• bash: Command Line History, Editing and Completion
• Bash: "shortcuts"
• bash: prompt

Lab 10 - Unix Shells

• Identify the current shell
• Examine symbolic links of listed shells
• Invoke shell directly and change login shell
• Explore the functions available through command line history
• Display all aliases, create a new alias, and remove an alias
• Add aliases to .bashrc file to make aliases persistent across login shells and system reboots
• Customize the bash shell
• Run the Z shell
• Explore prompt options including a right hand prompt

Section 11 - 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 11 - Shell Scripting

• Create a shell script to permit "safe" deletion of files
• Install new shell script

Section 12 - Process Management and Job Control

• What is a Process?
• Process Creation and States
• Viewing Processes
• Signals
• Tools to Send Signals
• Job Control Basics
• Jobs
• Screen
• Using screen
• Advanced Screen

Lab 12 - Job Control

• Create several jobs to multi-task at the shell prompt
• Job control
• Use a "fork bomb" to create additional processes
• Use process management tools to examine the current state of the system
• Clean up using kill, killall, pgrep and pkill on the command line and KDE System Guard and the
• Gnome System Monitor GUI programs
• Create a screen session
• Detach from your session and re-attach to your neighbor? screen session
• Create a split screen session

Section 13 - Messaging

• Command Line Messaging
• write, talk, and ytalk
• The mesg utility
• Internet Relay Chat
• Instant Messenger Clients
• Electronic Mail
• Sending Mail with sendmail
• Sending Email with mail
• Overview of PINE
• Sending Email with Pine
• Evolution

Lab 13 - Messaging

• Use mesg, write, and talk to communicate between users.
• Send mail using mail and pine.

Section 14 - The Secure Shell (SSH)

• Secure Shell
• Accessing Remote Shells
• Transferring Files
• Alternative sftp Clients
• SSH Key Management
• ssh-agent

Lab 14 - SSH

• Establish a secure session to a remote host using ssh
• Copy files securely from one host to another using scp
• Generate and use RSA and DSA user keys
• Use ssh-agent to cache the decrypted private key

Section 15 - Managing Software

• Downloading Software
• FTP, NcFTP, and lftp
• wget, lynx, and links
• Installing Software
• Installing Binary Packages - rpm
• Querying and Verifying with rpm
• Installing Debian Packages
• Compiling / Installing from Source
• Installing Source RPM Packages

Lab 15 - Managing Software

• Practice using the ftp, ncftp, and wget commands to download software