Oracle Linux: Linux Fundamentals Training  

What is Linux?

• UNIX Origins, Design Principles and Timeline
• FSF, GNU, and GPL - General Public License
• The Linux Kernel and Linux Features
• Popular uses of Linux
• What is a Distribution?
• Components of Distributions
• SLS, Slackware, Mandriva, and Debian
• Architecture Specific Distros

Multi-User Concepts

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

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

Manipulating Files

• Directory Manipulation
• File Manipulation
• File Creation and Removal
• Physical Unix File Structure
• Filesystem Links
• File extensions and content
• Displaying Files
• Previewing Files

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

Shell Basics

• Role of Command Shell
• Communication Channels
• File Redirection
• Piping Commands Together
• Filename Matching
• Wildcard Patterns/Globing
• Brace Expansion
• Shell/Environment Variables

Regular Expressions

• Regular Expression Overview
• Regular Expressions

Archiving and Compression

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

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

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

Shell Scripting

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

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

- 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

Section 14 - The Secure Shell (SSH)

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

- 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

Printing

• Linux printer sub-systems
• lpd and LPRng
• Common UNIX Printing System
• Standard Print Commands
• Format Conversion Utilities
• Ghostscript
• enscript
• mpage

Mounting Filesystems & Managing Removable Media

• Filesystems Concept Review
• Mounting Filesystems
• NFS
• SMB
• File System Table
• Automating Mounts
• Removable media
• Preparing Floppy Diskettes

- X Window System

• The X Window System
• X Modularity
• Xfree86/X.org
• Starting X
• Display Manager Concepts
• XDMCP and X Security
• Using Unix Remotely
• Customizing X Sessions