Master Linux Basics: 4-Course Bundle

Just an introduction to this course. I explain what you will learn in my course and for who this course is.

Please see the Resources section for the links to the 2 files that you need for the course.

Part 1 covers preparing the virtual machine with Oracle VirtualBox, for the Linux Mint installation.

Part 2 covers the actual installation of Linux Mint.

Part 3 covers some post installation activities to show you the successfully installed Linux Mint desktop as well as some tips/advice on setting up your Linux Mint OS after installation.

Installing drivers and other software is briefly covered here as well as a brief mention and display of the Linux shell terminal.

In case you need to be shown how, this video shows you where to download the Linux Mint .iso image file. Please refer to the introduction section first. If you dont come right there, then watch this video.

Please note: the first lecture(introduction lecture) audio is very low, so please turn up your pc/windows/mac desktop audio to max, so that you can hear the first lecture clearly.

Ubuntu Linux BASH shell terminal is used for this course.

The course is divided into 5 lectures.

Note: this course introduces the student to the typical Unix/Linux Shell Command Basics, meant for beginners, and therefore does not go into advanced details. If you would like an advanced course on this, please let me know.

Please read the lecture descriptions.

thanks,

Jerome

commands covered:

pwd

cd

ls

commands covered:

cat

commands covered:

cat (continued)

mkdir

rm, rmdir

cp, mv

less

touch

nano

sudo

top

kill, killall

echo

sync

chmod

which

commands covered:

useradd, userdel

groups, groupadd, groupdel

du, df, free

watch

head, tail

find, locate

wc

cal, ncal

date

commands covered:

apt-get

ifconfig

tar

grep

netstat

sh, bash

Optional, but recommended:

If you don't already have access to a Linux OS, then you can install Linux on your computer either directly, or via a virtual machine(recommended).

On Windows you can install VirtualBox, and then install Linux on there. Same for Mac OS.

I have included the relevant download links for you under the resources section.

(If you need assistance with installing Linux, you are welcome to message me.)

thanks

Jerome

1) How do you execute more than one command or program from a single command line entry?

2) Write a command that will look for files with an extension "c", and has the occurrence of the string "banana" in it.

3) Write a command that will display all .txt files, including its individual permission.

4) Write a command that will do the following:

-look for all files in the current and subsequent directories with an extension c,v
-strip the ,v from the result (you can use sed command)
-use the result and use a grep command to search for all occurrences of the word “banana” in the files.

5) What is wrong with each of the following commands?

a) ls -l-s
b) cat file1, file2
c) ls - s folder2

6) What is the command to calculate the size of a folder?

7) How can you find the status of a process?

8) How can you check the memory status?

9) How can you append one file to another in Linux?

10) How you can find a file using the Shell Terminal?

11) How can you create a folder using the Shell Terminal?

12) How can you view a text file using the Shell Terminal?

13) How do you enable curl on Ubuntu LAMP stack?

14) How do you enable root logging in Ubuntu?

15) How do you uninstall the libraries in Linux?

16) What is Linux?

17) What is the difference between UNIX and LINUX?

18) What is BASH?

19) Define Linux Kernel?

20) What is LILO?

21) Define swap space?

22) What is the advantage of open source?

23) What are the basic components of Linux?

24) Does it help for a Linux system to have multiple desktop environments installed?

25) Main differences between BASH and DOS?

26) What is the root account?

27) What is CLI?

28) What is GUI?

29) What does a nameless (empty) directory represent?

30) What is the pwd command?

31) What are daemons?

32) How do you switch from one desktop environment to another, such as switching from KDE to Gnome?

33) Name the different types of permissions under Linux?

34) How does case sensitivity affect the way you use commands?

35) What are Linux environment variables?

36) What are the different modes when using vi editor?

37) Is it possible to use shortcuts for a long path name?

38) What is redirection?

39) What is the grep command?

40) In what common situation will a command you used previously give a different result now?

41) What is the following directory used for?: /usr/local

42) How do you terminate an ongoing process?

43) How do you insert comments on the shell command line?

44) What is command grouping?

45) How do you launch a Linux shell to issue commands?

46) How do you check memory usage of your Linux system?

47) What is the typically recommended size for a swap partition under a Linux system?

48) What are symbolic links?

49) What does Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination do in Linux?

50) How do you refer to parallel port devices such as printers?

51) How are disk drives(hard drives, floppy drives, etc) represented in Linux?

52) How do you change file/folder/directory permissions in Linux?

53) How to access partitions in Linux?

54) What is the maximum permitted length for a Linux filename?

55) What does a file name, preceded by a dot, mean?

56) What is a virtual desktop?

57) In Linux, how do you make a running/open application visible & accessible across all your different virtual desktops?