Linux Command-Line & Shell Scripting for Absolute Beginners

This course covers the following topics:

• Installing VirtualBox and Linux Mint – Covers the basic installation to get you up and running for this course.
• Editors – Vi and Notepad++. Discussion of the command based Vi Editor and some regular editor options.
• Account Management – Root, Sudo, Admin and Regular users.
• File and Directory Permissions – Permissions on Files and Folders. User, Group and Others.
• Linux Commands – File and Directory Commands, User Info Commands, Networking Commands, SSH and File Transfer Commands, Disk Commands, Security Commands, Archiving Commands, Search Commands, Installation Commands
• Vi Editor – Commands frequently used in the Vi Editor.
• Shell Expansion – Brace expansion, Tilde expansion, Parameter expansion, Command substitution, Arithmetic expansion, Process substitution, Word splitting, Filename expansion, Quotes.
• Basic Shell Scripting – Fundamentals of Shell Scripting.
• Braces, Brackets & Parentheses – Evaluation of Expressions.
• File Descriptors – Std Input, Std Output & Std Error
• Iterations – While loops, For loops, Until loops
• Conditionals
  • Case Statements
  • IF Statements
• Regular Expressions – Use of Regular Expressions in Pattern Matching.
• Arrays
• AWK – Use of AWK to extract and format data.
• SED – Use of SED to perform search and replace functions.
• Grep – Use of Grep to search for patterns of data.
• Utilities – Cut, Sort and Uniq
• Cron Scheduling – Perform automated batch processing.
• Processing Input and Output
• Master Script – 5hrs of content covering different areas of Corporate Shell scripting