Linux and Unix Command Line : A Practical Introduction

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Course

Lecture 2: Introduction to Linux and Unix Operating Systems

Lecture 3: Introduction to the Linux and Unix Command Line

Lecture 4: Introduction to the Linux and Unix Shell

Lecture 5: Introduction to different Shells in Linux and Unix Systems

Chapter 2: Beginning with the Linux and Unix Command Line

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Directory Hierarchy in Linux and Unix Systems

Lecture 2: Linux and Unix Command Components

Lecture 3: Starting with Linux and Unix Commands

Lecture 4: Using man pages for help

Chapter 3: Working with Files and Directories

Lecture 1: A note on working with files and directories

Lecture 2: Creation of directories using the mkdir command

Lecture 3: Creation of files using the touch command

Lecture 4: Using the cat command to create and view the content of text files

Lecture 5: Listing files in a directory using the ls command

Lecture 6: Using the cp command to copy files and directories

Lecture 7: Using the mv command to rename and move files and directories

Lecture 8: Using the rmdir command to remove empty directories

Lecture 9: Using the rm command to remove files and directories

Lecture 10: Using the file command to identify file type

Chapter 4: The vi/vim Editor to create and edit text files

Lecture 1: The vi/vim Editor: Adding text to the file – Session 1

Lecture 2: The vi/vim Editor: Adding text to the file – Session 2

Lecture 3: The vi/vim Editor : Navigating to different lines in the file

Lecture 4: The vi/vim Editor – Session Customization

Lecture 5: The vi/vim Editor – "Seeing" Non-Printable Characters like Tab and New Line

Lecture 6: The vi/vim Editor – Finding Text, Finding and Replacing Text

Lecture 7: The vi/vim Editor – Saving the file and exiting from the vi Editor session

Chapter 5: More commands to work with text files

Lecture 1: The more command

Lecture 2: Using cat command to "see" Non-Printable characters like Tab and New Line

Lecture 3: The head command

Lecture 4: The tail command

Lecture 5: A note on previous Lecture

Lecture 6: The wc command

Chapter 6: Hard Links and Symbolic Links

Lecture 1: Analogy for Hard Links and Symbolic Links

Lecture 2: Introduction to Hard Links

Lecture 3: Working with Hard Links

Lecture 4: Working with Symbolic Links

Lecture 5: Comparison between Hard Links and Symbolic Links

Chapter 7: The find and grep commands

Lecture 1: Locating files with the find command

Lecture 2: Shell Metacharacters

Lecture 3: Matching patterns with the grep command

Lecture 4: Introduction to Regular Expressions

Lecture 5: The egrep and fgrep commands

Chapter 8: Shell Command Line – More features

Lecture 1: Redirection of Standard Input

Lecture 2: Redirection of Standard Output

Lecture 3: Redirection of Standard Error

Lecture 4: Using the Pipe mechanism and the tee command

Lecture 5: Avoiding overwrite of existing files while redirecting Standard Ouput/Error

Lecture 6: Use of Quoting characters in the Shell

Chapter 9: Working with Variables and Aliases in the Shell

Lecture 1: Using Local Variables and Environment Variables

Lecture 2: Shell Reserved Variables

Lecture 3: Shell Special Variables

Lecture 4: Using Aliases

Chapter 10: File and Directory Access Permissions

Lecture 1: The Traditional Unix/Linux File Access Permissions

Lecture 2: Using chmod command to change file permissions

Lecture 3: The umask value and umask command

Lecture 4: Default permissions for a file and directory on their creation

Lecture 5: Using chown command to change the User and Group Owner of files and directories

Lecture 6: Using chgrp command to change the Group Ownership of files and directories

Chapter 11: Managing Processes

Lecture 1: The ps command

Lecture 2: The pgrep command

Lecture 3: The top command in Linux

Lecture 4: The kill and pkill commands

Chapter 12: Archiving Files and Directories

Lecture 1: Using the tar command

Lecture 2: Using the jar command

Chapter 13: Compressing and Uncompressing files

Lecture 1: The gzip, zcat and gunzip commands

Lecture 2: The bzip2, bzcat and bunzip2 commands

Lecture 3: A note on use case scenarios for compressing files

Lecture 4: Using the zip and unzip commands

Chapter 14: Introduction to Shell Scripting

Lecture 1: What is Shell Scripting?

Lecture 2: Constructs used in Shell Scripting

Lecture 3: Functions

Lecture 4: Use of Positional Parameters

Lecture 5: The cut command

Lecture 6: Use Case scenarios for Shell Scripting

Chapter 15: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Course Review

Lecture 2: Further Learning Suggestions