Linux V7 Essentials

Module 00: Course Introduction – Red Hat Linux V7 Essentials 

Module 01: Introduction to Linux

• Linux history
• Advantages of Linux and Open-source
• Linux distributions
• Three basic parts of Linux

Module 02: V7 Installation

• Hardware compatibility
• Installer Features
• Install boot process
• First boot
• Lab Exercise: Installing Linux

Module 03: Linux Usage Basics 

• Logging in
• Accessing the command line
• Changing your password
• The root user
• Elevating privileges
• Editing text files
• Lab Exercise: Working with root user

Module 04: Running Linux Commands 

• Running commands
• Getting help
• The whatis command
• The –help option
• man and info
• Demo: Running Linux Command
• Lab Exercise: Trying date, man and info command

Module 05: Exploring the Filesystem Part 1

• Overview of the filesystem hierarchy
• pwd, pathname, ls and cd
• Demo: Commands to Explore the Filesystem

Module 06: Exploring the Filesystem Part 2 

• Copying and removing files
• Creating and removing directories
• Nautilus
• Determining file content, viewing files, file permissions
• Demo: Using Nautilus
• Lab Exercise: Using shell Commands

Module 07: Introduction to the bash Shell 

• Command line shortcuts and history tricks
• Command line expansion
• Command editing tricks
• gnome-terminal
• Demo: Bash and the Gnome Terminal
• Lab Exercise: Working with bash shell

Module 08: Standard Input/Output and Pipes

• Standard input, output and error
• Redirecting standard input and output
• Redirecting standard error
• Redirecting both standard input and standard error
• Using pipes
• Demo: Input and Output Redirection
• Lab Exercise: Redirecting Input and Output

Module 09: Introduction to Users and Groups 

• Linux security model
• Users and Groups
• Permission types
• Examining and changing permissions
• Lab Exercise: Using Permissions

Module 10: Text Processing Part 1

• Regex Patterns
• Sed
• Exercise: Word match with Regexes

Module 11: Text Processing Part 2

• Extracting and manipulating text with sed, awk and Perl
• Demo: sed and awk Examples
• Perl
• Lab Exercise: Write a sed Command

Module 12: Basic System Configuration 

• Configuring date and time
• Configuring printers
• Network configuration
• System logs
• Demo: – Configuring a Printer
• Lab Exercise: Configuring a Basic System

Module 13: The vi Editor Part 1

• Using vi
• Command vs. insert mode
• Demo: vi First Steps

Module 14: The vi Editor Part 2

• Changing, pasting, deleting, copying and importing text
• Joining, searching and replacing text
• Splitting screen
• Configuring vi
• Lab Exercise: Using vi Editor

Module 15: Configuring the bash Shell 

• bash variables
• Environment variables
• Aliases
• Startup and exit scripts
• Intro to shell scripting
• Lab Exercise: Configuring the bash Shell

Module 16: Shell Programming Part 1

• Create a simple shell program
• Execute a simple shell program
• Demo: Creating and Executing Shell Programs
• Lab Exercises

Module 17: Shell Programming Part 2

• Using variables
• read and expr, || and &&
• Demo: Variables, read and expr
• Lab Exercises

Module 18: Shell Programming Part 3

• The test command
• if, while, until, for, case
• Lab Exercises

Module 19: Network Applications Part 1 

• Firefox and other web browsers
• Evolution and other email clients
• Email, encryption and digital signatures
• The empathy messaging system

Module 20: Network Applications Part 2

• telnet and the “r” services
• ssh, scp
• FTP clients
• Connecting to Windows disk shares
• File transfer with Nautilus
• Lab Exercise: Using Network Application Tools

Module 21: Advanced Users and Groups Part 1

• User and group ID numbers
• /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow
• System users and groups
• Changing your identity

Module 22: Advanced Users and Groups Part 2

• Default permissions
• SUID, SGID and sticky bits
• Demo: SUID, SGID and sticky bits
• Lab Exercise: Using umask

Module 23: Finding Things

• which
• whatis
• man –k (aka. apropos)
• find
• locate
• The Gnome search tool
• Demo: Examples of Finding Files
• Lab Exercise: Finding Programs, Files, Pages

Module 24: Linux Processes Part 1 

• Intro to processes
• Viewing processes, process states

Module 25: Linux Processes Part 2 

• Sending signals and terminating processes
• Process management tools
• Running a process in the background
• Suspending a process
• cron and anacron
• Demo: Process Management
• Lab Exercise: Experiment with ps, top and kill

Module 26: Advanced File System Part 1

• Partitions and filesystems
• Inode numbers
• Checking free space

Module 27: Advanced File System Part 2

• Working with archive files
• Compression utilities
• Demo: Archiving Files
• Lab Exercise: Using labfile

Module 28: The Next Steps

• Next steps in Linux
• Other Linux training classes
• The Linux community