Linux(Unix) Command with Shell Scripting-Must for Testers/QA

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to Unix (Linux)| Why as Tester we should Learn ? :Environment Setup

Lecture 1: Why as Tester/QA to learn Unix/Linux Commands ? Practical areas to use it as QA

Lecture 2: Documentation : Basics Concepts + Setup

Lecture 3: Course Roadmap : Must for everyone to view

Lecture 4: Use online environment for practice(In case you don't have practice environment)

Lecture 5: Documentation : Setup Environment for Practice

Lecture 6: Setup Practice Environment on Windows Machine (Suggestive for better practicing)

Chapter 2: Let's Start Practical Session with very basic Unix /Linux Commands

Lecture 1: Start working with Basic Commands : Current Directory, Clear Terminal & Help

Lecture 2: Working with Directories – Create Directory, Move in & Move out to Directories

Lecture 3: Working with Directories – Create Multiple Directories, Delete Directory

Lecture 4: Different option to create files : Blank File, File with Content, Insert Data

Lecture 5: Listing files and Folders : Hidden Files, List Format and Sorted Order

Lecture 6: All uses of CAT command : Must for Practical Implementation & Interviews

Chapter 3: Check content of File(Log Files) : Must Learning Concepts/practical for Tester

Lecture 1: Documentation : Sample Data to be used for Practicing with me

Lecture 2: Setup Sample Data to be used for Practicing with me

Lecture 3: Check complete file content : CAT Command

Lecture 4: Check file content : Top few lines – Head Command

Lecture 5: Check file content : bottom few lines – Tail Command

Lecture 6: Check file content : with Paging – More Command

Lecture 7: Check file content : with Paging – Less Command

Lecture 8: Check file content : with VIM editor

Lecture 9: Commonly Asked Question : Get few lines from middle of the File

Chapter 4: Search Data in a File : This Section is also MUST for Realtime Work + Interviews

Lecture 1: What is Grep Command | Search data in 1 file by giving Search String

Lecture 2: Search data in more than 1 file : Giving Search String, Practical Implementation

Lecture 3: Search data in all files of current directory : Practical Implementation

Lecture 4: Search data by ignoring case : Must to be use which checking Log files

Lecture 5: Search Data : Display Line number in front of each display line

Lecture 6: Search Data : Display File Name (When we are searching content in multiple file)

Lecture 7: Search Data : With exact word (Not as a Substring of other Words)

Lecture 8: Search Data : By ignoring given text (Reverse of Simple Search)

Lecture 9: Search Data : Display only count of matches

Lecture 10: Search Data : Display surrounding lines by giving Search String

Lecture 11: Search Multiple Content in a Single Command

Lecture 12: Search Multiple data with EGREP command (Advance Search Operation)

Lecture 13: IMPORTANT——- Task for Students —– : Search Lines having text

Lecture 14: IMPORTANT——- Task for Students —– : Search Count

Lecture 15: IMPORTANT——- Task for Students —– : Search specific count only

Chapter 5: Cut & Copy Files and Folder |Taking Files and Folders from one location to Other

Lecture 1: Copy file from one location to another location – Part 1

Lecture 2: Copy file from one location to another location – Part 2

Lecture 3: Cut(Move) file from one location to another locations

Lecture 4: Rename File and Folder

Chapter 6: Command Operators : Passing Date between 2 or more commands or Files

Lecture 1: Save command results to a File ( > & >> Operator)

Lecture 2: Get data from a File ( < Operator)

Lecture 3: Pass result of one command to another ( | Operator)

Lecture 4: Change File Permission

Chapter 7: File Comparison : Cmp, Comm and Diff command

Lecture 1: File Comparison – CMP command : Print Only Different Bytes

Lecture 2: File Comparison – Comm command : Display common and Different content

Lecture 3: File Comparison – Diff command : Display only different lines

Chapter 8: Search Files and Folder on current location or complete system

Lecture 1: Search File on current location or in Current Hierarchy

Lecture 2: Search file in the Complete File System

Lecture 3: Basic System Commands : Calendar , Date and Banner

Chapter 9: Process File data using CUT Command : Fetch columns from delimiter file

Lecture 1: Fetch one or few characters from each line of file

Lecture 2: Fetch one or few column from each line of file

Lecture 3: Fetch one or few column other than given column

Lecture 4: Fetch column by skipping incorrect data

Chapter 10: Stream Editor to perform File Operations (SED)

Lecture 1: What is SED | Where to use SED commands

Lecture 2: SED : Display Specific Line from complete file

Lecture 3: SED : Display Last Line and Range of Lines out of total file

Lecture 4: SED : Skip lines in result (Display all lines other than given condition)

Chapter 11: Advance Unix/Linux : File Processing using AWK Commands

Lecture 1: Introduction to AWK | Where to use AWK | Select Column Data

Lecture 2: Setup Test Data

Lecture 3: AWK – Select One or Multiple Columns

Lecture 4: AWK – Select columns from CSV file

Lecture 5: AWK – Filter Rows Data

Lecture 6: AWK – Save command result to a file

Chapter 12: Advance miscellaneous Operations : Most usable unix/linux commands

Lecture 1: Display content with Pagination(To make file easy to use)

Lecture 2: Merge lines in the file : Paste Command

Lecture 3: Check file information : Wc (Word Count command)

Lecture 4: Sort File Content (Ascending or Descending order)

Lecture 5: Check command History (Fetch all commands user executed)

Lecture 6: Fetch unique data from the file(Uniq Command)

Lecture 7: Process Commands : Ps command- Check running process

Lecture 8: Memory Commands

Chapter 13: Introduction to Shell Scripting, Lets start Writing Shell Scripting

Lecture 1: Shell Scripting Introduction : How to create Shell file

Lecture 2: Write First Shell Script, Basic rules and Steps to Execute

Lecture 3: How to pass user inputs to Shell Script file

Lecture 4: Shell script with simple shell commands

Lecture 5: Shell Scripting – Use Case 1 : Must to Try for Every Learner

Lecture 6: Shell Scripting – Use Case 2 : Must to Try for Every Learner

Lecture 7: Update Shell Script – Printf & RANDOM

Chapter 14: Move to NEXT Level in Shell Scripting

Lecture 1: Command Line Arguments | Positional Arguments – Part 1

Lecture 2: Command Line Arguments | Positional Arguments – Part 2

Lecture 3: What is Variable | System Variables

Lecture 4: How to define and use User Defined Variables – Part 1