(EN) Linux Mastery For The Absolute Beginners

Linux is the most popular operating system in all IT nowadays. If you want to learn Cloud, DevOps, Data Analysis, Big Data, Machine Learning, AI, or any specialization, mastering Linux means you will be ready to learn any IT technology or trend.

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Course curriculum

1. A message from the Instructor
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2. How to use this course
3. Hurray! We will run the course labs on a free environment on AWS
4. Resource Download - Course PDF File
1. Motivation to Linux : History and present in Numbers
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2. Linux Distributions
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3. Comparison between Linux and Windows
1. Introduction to virtualization and using an AWS EC2 Virtual Machine to create a free linux lab environment
2. Create Your Free AWS Account
3. EC2 instance user data script - required when creating the EC2 instance (next lecture)
4. Create Your First Linux Virtual Machine (EC2 Instance) On AWS
5. Add-ons : Use MobaXterm SSH client to connect to your EC2 instance from your local computer
1. The Linux Terminal, Shell and Bash
2. Hands-On Lab : Terminal, Shell and Bash
3. Hands-On Lab : Editing Terminal and Font Color and Size
4. Linux Command Structure
5. Hands-On Lab : Linux Command Structure - Some Basic Linux Commands (date, cat, head, tail, cp)
6. Learn by doing - Section Practice
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7. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
8. Tab Tab Magic
1. Linux File System & Absolute Path & Relative Path
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2. Hands-On Lab : Navigating through files: pwd, cd, ls
3. Managing Files and Directories
4. Hands-On Lab : Files and Directories Management
5. Making links between Files : Hard link and Soft link
6. Hands-On Lab : Making links between files : ln
7. File System Hierachy
8. Learn by doing - Section Practice
9. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
1. Hands-On Lab - Command Completion Using the Tab Keyboard Key
2. Up/Down Keyboard Arrow Keys & The Linux history Command
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3. Getting Help : The Man command
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4. Hands-On Lab : Using Man and navigating through manual
5. Hands-On Lab : Man -k and man-pages : how to look for a certain command?
6. Learn by doing - Section Practice
7. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
1. Vi and Vim
2. Hands-On Lab : Vim
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3. Grep command : Lecture and Hands-On
4. Learn by doing - Section Practice
5. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
1. User Management Concepts
2. Hands-On Lab : User and Groups: Creation, Modification and deletion
3. Password Management
4. Sudo Command - Lecture & Hands-On Lab
5. Learn by doing - Section Practice
6. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
1. File Permissions and Ownership Concepts
2. Hands-On Lab : Permissions, Checking and Modifying Ownership
3. Lecture & Hands-On Lab - Changing permissions: Chmod Symbolic and Numerical
4. Special File Permissions (set uid, set groupid, sticky bit)
5. Hands-On Lab : Special File Permissions
6. Learn by doing - Section Practice
7. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
1. Standard Input and Output
2. Hands-On Lab : Output Redirection
3. Pipelining and an important use case: Grep - Lecture and Hands-On Lab
4. Hands-On Lab : Find and Locate
5. Learn by doing - Section Practice
6. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
1. Introduction to packages, dependencies and YUM
2. Hands-On Lab : RPM
3. RPM Lab : Apache Download Link
4. Hands-On Lab : YUM
5. Hands-On Lab : How to add a new YUM Repo?
6. Learn by doing - Section Practice
7. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
1. Introduction to Networking
2. Networking on AWS
3. User Data Script - Required in the next hands-on Lab
4. Hands-On Lab : AWS Network Environment Setup
5. Hands-On Lab : Adding Network Interfaces
6. Hands-On Lab: IP Commands
7. Hands-On Lab: Network-Scripts Directory
8. Hands-On Lab: Configuring Persistent IPv4
9. Hands-On Lab: ICMP Ping
10. Hands-On Lab: Hostnamectl
11. Hands-On Lab: DNS
12. Clean Up
1. Introduction to Scripting
2. Hands-On - First Script
3. Variables
4. Hands-On Lab : Variables
5. Conditional Statements
6. Hands-On Lab : Conditional Statements - If and case
7. Learn by doing - Section Practice
8. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
1. Introduction to Scheduling
2. Hands-on Lab : Scheduling commands
3. User Scheduled Jobs - Crontab
4. Hands-On Lab : Crontab
5. System Scheduled Jobs : Crond
6. Hands-On Lab : Crond
7. Learn by doing - Section Practice
8. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
1. Daemons and Services
2. Systemctl
3. Hands-On Lab : Systemctl
4. Learn by doing - Section Practice
5. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
1. Linux Process Management
2. Hands-On Lab : Listing Processes - ps command
3. Hands-On Lab : Listing Processes - top command
1. Disk Management Concepts
2. Partitioning
3. Hands-On Lab : Adding Disks
4. Hands-On Lab : Partitioning using fdisk
5. Hands-On Lab : Partitioning using parted
6. File System Concepts: Lecture and Hands-On Lab
7. Mounting
8. Hands-On Lab : Temporary Mounting : mount
9. Persistent Mounting and UUID
10. Hands-On Lab : Persistent Mounting and UUID
11. Swap Partitioning
12. Learn by doing - Section Practice
13. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
1. Introduction to NFS
2. Hands-On Lab : NFS Server
3. Hands-On Lab : NFS Client
4. Automounting
5. Hands-On Lab : Automounting
6. Learn by doing - Section Practice
7. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key
1. Introduction to Archiving
2. Hands-On - Archiving with/without Compression
3. Transferring Files
4. Hands-On Lab : Transferring Files: scp, sftp and rsync
5. Learn by doing - Section Practice
6. Learn by doing - Section Practice - Answer Key