Linux Command Line Fundamentals

What you'll learn

• Navigate the filesystem and manage files confidently.
• Read and set permissions, users, groups and sudo access.
• Search and transform text with grep, sed, awk, pipes and redirection.
• Manage processes, packages, services and scheduled jobs.
• Write Bash scripts and use SSH, logs and network tools to troubleshoot.

Syllabus

Module 1: Getting Started

1. Linux Introduction
2. The Terminal & Shell

Module 2: Navigation

1. Filesystem & Navigation
2. Absolute & Relative Paths

Module 3: File Operations

1. Creating Files & Directories
2. Copy, Move & Remove
3. Viewing File Contents
4. Finding Files & Archives (find, tar)

Module 4: Permissions

1. The Permission Model
2. chmod & chown

Module 5: Text Processing

1. Searching with grep
2. sed, awk & Piping

Module 6: Processes

1. Viewing Processes
2. Killing Processes
3. Jobs & Signals

Module 7: Package Management

1. Package Management: apt
2. yum & dnf

Module 8: Users & Groups

1. Users
2. Groups & sudo

Module 9: Environment

1. Environment Variables
2. The PATH Variable

Module 10: Redirection & Pipes

1. Redirection
2. Pipes & xargs

Module 11: Shell Scripting

1. Your First Bash Script
2. Variables & Conditionals
3. Loops in Bash

Module 12: Networking & Remote Access

1. SSH Basics
2. scp & Checking Connectivity
3. Logs & Network Troubleshooting

Module 13: System Administration

1. Disk Usage
2. systemd & cron