OVERVIEW

• Unix history
• Unix Principles
• GNU Project/FSF
• GPL
• Linux Origins
• Why Linux?
• SLES 10
• Hardware Requirements
• Installing SLES10

DESKTOP FUNDAMENTALS

• Desktop concepts
• Using GNOME
• Navigating the desktop
• Useful applications
• Nautilus explained

USING THE COMMAND LINE

• Running commands
• Some simple commands
• Benefiting from the shell – basic facilities
• Getting help

BROWSING THE FILESYSTEM

• Linux file hierarchy concepts (FHS)
• Important directories explained
• Current working directory
• File and directory names
• Pathnames – absolute and relative
• Listing directories
• Creating files and directories
• Copying and moving files and directories
• Removing files and directories
• Using Nautilus
• Further basic file commands

BASH SHELL

• Bash introduction
• Heritage and features
• History
• Command line features

STANDARD I/O and PIPES

• Standard I/O Model
• Redirecting input and output
• Overwriting vs Appending
• Using pipes to connect processes
• tee

USERS, GROUPS and PERMISSIONS

• The Linux security model
• Users
• Groups
• Linux file security
• Permissions
• Changing permissions – symbolic and numeric
• Using Nautilus to work with file security

vi BASICS

• Objectives of vi
• vi modes
• A simple vi session
• Cursor movement
• Inserting text
• Change, delete, put and yank
• Searching for text

LINUX FILESYSTEM

• Partitions and file systems
• Inodes
• Directories
• Working with inodes
• Soft (symbolic) and hard links
• File systems and file types
• Checking free space
• Mounting filesystems
• Working with removable media
• Archiving files
• File compression

CONFIGURING the BASH SHELL

• Shell variables
• Local variables
• PS1
• Aliases
• Functions
• Environment variables
• TERM, PATH
• Command Line Expansion
• Login shells
• Shell startup scripts

FURTHUR USERS, GROUPS and PERMISSIONS

• User and group ID numbers
• etc/passwd, /etc/group, ......
• System Users and Groups
• Default permissions
• Special permissions

REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

• Pattern matching with regular expressions
• Wildcard characters
• Character classes
• Modifiers
• Anchors
• Regex combinations
• grep

STRING PROCESSING

• head/tail
• cut/paste
• wc
• sort/uniq
• diff

FINDING and PROCESSING FILES

• slocate
• find
• executing commands with find

TEXT SUPERTOOLS

• sed
• awk

MANAGING PROCESSES

• Linux Process Model
• fork/exec
• Viewing processes
• Foreground, background, detached processes
• Sending signals to processes
• Terminating processes
• Process priority manipulation
• Managing background processes as jobs
• Scheduling jobs to run later
• cron and the crontab file

bash SHELL SCRIPTING

• Scripting basics
• Creating shell scripts
• Generating output
• Handling input
• Exit status
• Conditional operation
• For/while loops
• Command-line parameters
• Debugging shell scripts