Designed to provide the essential skills needed to be proficient at the Unix or Linux command line. This course focuses on the fundamental concepts and tools which make Unix and Linux so powerful. The curriculum is designed to provide hands-on experience. Subjects focused on during this class include the Linux filesystem and how to manipulate it; the basic Unix and Linux notions of pipes, redirection, regular expressions, and other tools for performing complex tasks; the management of processes and jobs; vi, the standard Unix editor; and the ability to construct shell scripts to automate routine or difficult operations.

Students will learn:

• UNIX origins
• Architecture specific distros
• Multi-User Concepts
• Login Session Info
• Virtual console and GUI
• Login and discovery
• Filesystem hierarchy
• Linux filesystem
• File permissions
• Streaming editor
• Command shell basics
• Weaving pipe commands
• Wildcard patterns and globbing
• I/O redirection commands
• Use | (pipe) to chain commands
• Regular expressions overview
• Directory archive with tar and cpio

Course Overview:

• Linux filesystem manipulation
• Unix pipes
• Redirection
• Regular Expressions
• Management of jobs and processes
• Environment control
• Standard Unix editor
• Construction of Bourne and Korn shell scripts
• X Windows
• File Backup
• Text Processing
• Shell Basics
• Regular Expressions
• Archiving and Compression