Intermediate Linux

Enhance your Linux skills with our Intermediate Linux course, perfect for professionals seeking hands-on experience with shell programming, text manipulation, and multitasking to optimize their workflow.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Enhance proficiency in Linux file system organization and navigation commands.

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Develop shell programming skills using sh, bash, and ksh.

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Utilize advanced shell features for improved script performance.

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Master text and file processing utilities to efficiently manipulate data.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 2 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Intermediate Linux users
  • System administrators
  • DevOps engineers
  • IT professionals

Description

Intermediate Linux: Shell, Bash, Text Manipulation, Multitasking & More is a two-day course designed to provide you with hands-on experience using standard Linux commands and utilities used for day-to-day tasks including file manipulation, program execution and control, and effective use of the shell and desktop environments. Throughout the course you’ll explore key concepts to Linux core functionality, while learning the system's most commonly used commands. You’ll also learn the Bourne shell, Bash shell and Korn shell programming techniques you’ll need to read and modify existing shell scripts, and create your own. Data manipulation utilities and shell syntax for synthesizing command pipelines are also emphasized throughout the course.

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Course Outline

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Review of the File System

  1. File System Organization

  2. File Types

  3. File and Directory Naming Rules and Conventions

  4. Commands for Navigating the File System

  5. Introduction to Inodes

  6. Ownership, Permissions, and Dates

  7. Manipulating Files and Links

  8. Manipulating Directories

  9. Determining Disk Usage

  10. Other File System Utilities

Introduction to Shells: sh, bash, and ksh

  1. Shell Functions

  2. I/O Redirection and Pipes

  3. Command Separation and Grouping

  4. Background Execution

  5. Filename Expansion

  6. Shell Variables

  7. Command Substitution

  8. Quoting and Escaping Metacharacters

  9. Bash Shell Features

  10. Korn Shell Features

  11. Command Execution

  12. Startup Files

  13. Customizing the User Environment

Shell Programming

  1. Shell Script Features and Capabilities

  2. Creating and Running a Script

  3. Working With Variables

  4. Environment Variables

  5. Working With Data Types

  6. Formatting

  7. Base Conversion

  8. Setting Special Attributes

  9. Input/Output Techniques

  10. Conditional Constructs

  11. if/then

  12. else/elif

  13. Looping Constructs

  14. for, while, until

  15. Math Operators

Advanced Shell Features

  1. Manipulating Strings

  2. Writing and Calling Functions

  3. Controlling Process Priorities

  4. Interpreting Command Line Arguments

  5. Making Scripts Interactive

  6. Special Shell Variables

  7. Advanced I/O with Streams

  8. Improving Performance of Scripts

Text Manipulation Utilities

  1. Editing a File from a Script

  2. Scripting with ed or sed

  3. UNIX and Linux Utilities to Manipulate Files

  4. Regular Expressions

  5. grep and egrep

  6. The Stream Editor sed

  7. Sorting in Scripts

  8. Generating Reports with awk

  9. Splitting Large Files

  10. Counting Words, Lines, and Characters

  11. Transforming File Contents

File Processing Utilities

  1. Examining and Comparing Files

  2. Reporting Differences Between Files

  3. Comparing Files of Any Format

  4. Displaying Data in Octal and Hex

  5. Compressing Data

  6. Converting File Formats

  7. Extracting Text Strings

Multitasking and Batch Processing

  1. Multitasking

  2. Scheduled Execution Using cron

  3. The at and batch Commands

Regular Expressions

  1. Regular Expression Overview

  2. Regular Expression Implementations

  3. Regular Expressions

  4. RE Character Classes

  5. Regex Quantifiers

  6. RE Parenthesis

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