Linux Command Line Interface (CLI) Fundamentals

By Andrew Mallett
In this course, you will learn to master the command line shell in Linux and Unix. This is the 2nd of 4 courses that will prepare you for the LPIC-1 and CompTIA Linux+ certification.
Course info
Rating
(485)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Jul 26, 2014
Duration
4h 43m
Table of contents
Introduction
Introducing Linux Command Line Interface (CLI) Fundamentals 4m What Are We Going to Look At? 6m
Working on the Command Line
An Introduction to Physical Consoles 3m Connecting to Consoles Whilst on the Server 4m Introducing Pseudo Consoles 4m Using Pseudo Consoles and SSH to Access the Command Line 7m Bash is Not the Only Shell 2m Using the ZSH on Linux 5m Recalling Commands Using History 3m Using Bash History Functions 6m Persisting History Variables Within Login Scripts 4m Module Summary 1m
Analyze Text Files
Introducing the Tools We May Use to Read Files 2m Using the Commands Cat and Tac 8m Use Cat to View Linux Runtime Configuration Data 5m Reading From the Top or the Bottom With Head and Tail 6m Paging Data With More and Less 5m Using Cut to Vertically Filter Data 4m Organizing Your Output With Sort 6m Summary 1m
Basic File Management
Course Introduction 4m cp is for Copy and mv for Move or Rename 5m The Option -R Allows for Recursive Copies 3m To Delete We Use rm 6m Directory Listings With ls 6m Additional Options for ls 4m Dd to Duplicate Disks 4m Synchronize Directories With rsync 3m Introduction to tar 2m Creating Backups With tar 7m Introduction to find 1m Using find to Locate Files 6m Summary 1m
Command Line Streams and Pipes
Introduction 6m Redirecting Output 5m Using noclobber 4m Reading From Files 4m Pipelines 4m Using Pipelines 4m Using the Command tee 4m Summary 1m
Create, Kill, and Monitor Processes
Introduction to Managing Processes 3m The Importance of the procps Package 2m Understanding Uptime and Load Averages 2m Using Uptime to Display Load Averages 5m Jobs and Backgrounding Tasks 1m Running Many Jobs Within a Single Console 6m Understanding the ps and kill Commands 2m Managing Processes on the CLI 8m The Many Facets of top 1m Using top to Display and Sort Processes 5m Summary 2m
Search Text Files Using Regular Expressions
Welcome to Regular Expressions 5m Using grep and Case Sensitivity 3m Did I Tell You I Do Not Like Untidy Files? 4m Using sed to Clean Comments and Blank Lines From Files 6m Introducing The Squiggles ^$}?[ 4m Practical Example Filtering Postcodes 7m Moving Regular Expressions Into PERL 3m Validating User Input Using Regular Expressions 3m Summary 2m
Using vi to Edit Files From the CLI
Introduction to vi and vim 5m Opening and Closing Files in vim 7m Line Navigation in vim 5m Demonstrating vim Line Navigation 6m Understanding Reading and Writing From Within vim 2m Practice Reading and Writing to Files 3m Searching and Replacing Text in vim 5m Persisting Settings and Mappings in the .vimrc 5m Summary 2m
Description
Course info
Rating
(485)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Jul 26, 2014
Duration
4h 43m
Description

Mastering the command line is so important when it comes to managing the Linux Server. Very often there will be no GUI and all access is via SSH from PuTTY or another client. You will soon learn the speed at which tasks can be achieved from the CLI and why it is so powerful. You may be used to the up arrow key for your Windows history, but the Linux history is so much more. Searching and reading from files is quick and easy, and many tools will be covered giving you the skills you need to manage your servers and desktops.

About the author
Andrew Mallett
About the author

Andrew is a committed evangelist of the Linux Operating System and the concept of community and freedom that it provides. He has worked as a technical trainer since 1995 and has taught throughout the world, including Australia, the US, Germany and Eastern Europe. Andrew started teaching Linux in 2004 when Novell acquired SUSE and has been a long time supporter of Novell and provides SYSOP support the the Certifed Novell Instructor community on Linux. Andrew founded theurbanpenguin and has been submitting video training material to his YouTube channel since 2009 and currently has over 8,500 subscribers and 1.6 Million views. Andrew has had two publications with Packt: Citrix Access Gateway VPX Essentials (2012) and Citrix XenApp (2013).

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