A Beginner’s Guide To Linux Commands

Name: A Beginner’s Guide To Linux Commands
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Learning foundational Linux commands to navigate in Linux operating system

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Created byRaphael Asghar

Last updated 11/2018

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What you'll learn

At the end of this course, the student will be able to understand the structure and the file system of the open source operating system: Linux.

Course content

1 section • 44 lectures • 7h 3m total length

WELCOME TO LEARNING LINUX COMMANDS4:51
WHAT IS THE LINUX OS4:15
UPDATE:INSTALL THE CURRENT VERSION OF UBUNTU DESKTOP1:01
DOWNLOAD APPS AND INSTALL LINUX17:00
COMPARE WINDOWS TO LINUX FILE STRUCTURE8:57
DIRECTORIES AND FILES IN LINUX6:03
HOW TO NAVIGATE THE UBUNTU DESKTOP6:11
INTRO TO LINUX COMMANDS PART 120:16
INTRO TO LINUX COMMANDS PART 210:16
FINDING DETAILS ABOUT FILES2:46
HOW TO MAKE DIRECTORIES5:47
HOW TO DELETE FILES9:46
HOW TO COPY MOVE AND RENAME FILES AND DIRECTORIES10:25
Learn to copy, move, and rename files and directories with cp, using recursive options, verify copies via inode numbers, and use absolute and relative paths with touch and ls.
CONCATENATE WITH CAT13:46
USING PERMISSIONS IN LINUX7:14
PERMISSIONS DEMO AND CHMOD12:48
HOW TO ADD USERS12:46
WHAT IS THE SHADOW FILE9:23
HOW TO DELETE USERS6:14
LEARNING ABOUT UID AND GID7:05
USING THE GREP COMMAND6:41
HOW TO CREATE GROUPS12:09
USING USERMOD COMMAND10:24
USING THE CHOWN COMMAND9:53
WHAT IS THE CHAGE COMMAND8:07
USING THE MORE LESS HEAD TAIL COMMANDS6:50
Use the more, less, head, and tail commands to view and page through large log files. Learn to scroll with space, quit with q, and pipe output to other commands.
WHAT ARE PIPES AND REDIRECTION OF FILES10:50
Master linux pipes and redirection to transfer command output between programs and to files. Use less and more for paging and learn overwrite versus append with > and >>.
USING THE NANO EDITOR13:41
USING THE VIM EDITOR16:16
USING THE CUT COMMAND TO FILTER10:11
USING AWK TO FILTER FILES13:26
USING WILDCARDS PART 110:00
Discover how wildcards in Linux use the asterisk, question mark, and brackets to match patterns and filter files and directories.
USING WILDCARDS PART 212:17
Learn to use wildcards in the Linux shell, including question marks, asterisks, and brackets, to filter files by name and extension.
HOW TO SHARE FILES FROM DESKTOP TO LINUX5:10
Share a folder from a Windows desktop to an Ubuntu virtual machine using VirtualBox shared folders. Install the guest additions to enable sharing and access the files from Linux.
WHAT ARE HARD AND SOFT LINKS14:48
USING GZIP TO COMPRESS FILES12:06
USING TAR TO ARCHIVE AND COMPRESS DIRECTORIES9:45
USING APT GET TO INSTALL APPLICATIONS9:02
INSTALLING UBUNTU SERVER9:51
Install Ubuntu server and switch from a GUI desktop to a full command line interface, using terminal commands to create virtual machines, install updates, and run server workloads.
INSTALLING UBUNTU SERVER PART 212:15
INSTALLING GNOME DESKTOP ON UBUNTU SERVER7:16
Install the gnome desktop on ubuntu server and run apt-get update and upgrade to enable a graphical interface. Log in to the gui and verify the server version.
INSTALLING SQL SERVER 2017 ON LINUX SERVER18:34
EXAMPLE OF SHELL SCRIPT6:06
BONUS VIDEO0:48
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Requirements

This course – A Beginner’s Guide To Linux Commands- is for the absolute beginner!

Description

At the end of this course, the student will be able to understand the structure and the file system of the open source operating system: Linux.

They will use the command line interface -and not the GUI- to gain confidence in simply executing the commands! They will learn commands such as ls to list files, cp to copy, grep to find patterns, use VIM and Nano to edit files, use wildcards to filter data, install SQL Server 2017 on Ubuntu server and much more.

At the end of this course, the student will have a solid foundation on how to use commands and gain a sense of confidence they never had before.

Who this course is for:

This course – A Beginner’s guide To Linux Commands- is for the absolute beginner!