Unix Linux Commands with basic shell scripting 2025

Name: Unix Linux Commands with basic shell scripting 2025
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Learn from basic to advance command in very easy way and get good hands on for shell scripting, become expert in OS

Created byAnshul Jain

Last updated 8/2025

English

What you'll learn

Get hands on in Unix / Linux /Ubuntu Commands , Basic Shell scripting mostly useful for Dev/Tester /DevOps
Become professional in working on Unix and Linux machines/ Servers
Do automation for task using shell script
Hands-on in vi editor for file create / insert / update /delete Operation
Advance Unix commands like grep , cut ,sed , awk powerful tools to do anything
One can directly work on all type of projects involving Linux/Ubuntu/Unix based tasks.

Course content

3 sections • 17 lectures • 3h 51m total length

Introduction about Unix /Linux Importance in IT world , Practice Simulator6:07
who should learn this course?
why its so important skill set today?
Command to get own user name , machine name (hostname) ,
How to figure out ip-address of the machine ?
URL to use free simulator of linux environment shell
Command See list of users logged in currently to my machine : who
User / Group Management Commands12:24
a. User based operations : add user, delete user , change password , change group of user
Add an Existing User Account to a Group
usermod -a -G examplegroup exampleusername
b. /etc/passwd file to see list of users
c. su command to switch user in same terminal and sudo command for superuser privilege
Commands for Operation on Files and Directories19:42
a. List files or directories , Change path
b. Copy , move , remove , create files and directories
c. ls, mkdir , cd , pwd , chmod , move, remove, touch, history, copy, symbolic links
d. See content of files using : cat, head, tail, less
Permission on Files & Folders , ssh command to login unix box12:14
Command to login from one unix machine to other using ssh user@hostname/ip
Change permission of a file or folder
Read-write-execute permission for user/group/everyone
Memory / Disk Space Operation commands5:05
a. Working with Memory : top , glance, free -t
b. Working with disk using : du , df
Setup Data for Students of college
Commands on Unix Process18:20
a. Process Commands : Background and Foreground process
b. echo $!, echo $$ , & , nohup , kill , tty

How to learn about any Command in Unix/Linux & Fun animation9:01
whatis
whereis
locate
apt-get
wget
cmatrix / sl FUN utility of animation in Unix / Linux
Opeartion on file content using cut command7:42
Find character on specific position in data
Cut command : Display range of characters
Cut command : Display specific column/ range of columns
Cut Command : Skip specific column
Redirection in Unix for saving output and Pipe Command15:14
Saving / Redirecting output of command to a file
Redirect input to a command from a file
Logging : stderr, stdout to file
Passing output of one command as input to other , very useful in creating scripting using Pipe
Search Operation using Find & Xargs Command14:50
Find: Find files kept at any location in OS in any directory
Find: Find file or directory by applying filter in command on name or type of file or size of file
Xargs command to execute a command on output of previous pipe command
Search Operation using Grep command12:43
grep substring or word in files
grep multiple string in files
get list of files contains such word,
get upper x lines or lower x lines where word present in file using Grep
get lines which dont contain "word1"
Test your knowledge on Unix tool learned in this section
The Vi Editor11:56
How to save file : wq, q
How to go to end of line, start of line
Insert mode , read mode
How to copy cc /delete dd / paste yy lines in vi editor
How to see line no. in vi editor : set nu
How to run shell command in vi editor
How to jump to any line no.

Script Creation and Execution18:33
Using vi editor to create bash or ksh shell script to create a file
Conditional Operation & if -else case in script
for loop
Command to execute and debug shell script with set -x or +x
Shell scripting Continues...18:33
a. for loop
b. while , break & continue
c. functions in script
Sed command for scripting : Stream Editor14:38
sed command basic usage
Display specific lines from file
how to replace word in many files using sed
how to put content in x no. of line in already existing file
How to delete specific lines from file
How to detect empty lines in a file and delete it
Scheduling script execution , Crontab9:55
How to use Crontab
How to schedule script execution in crontab
Different types of timing to put in crontab
awk command for Shell scripting25:02
AWK built in variables
To find/check for any string in any column
Reading script from a file
AWK - Conditionally Select data with logical OR / AND
AWK : Condition check using IF-ELSE IF -ELSE
AWK : Begin Block
AWK : End Block
AWK : While Loop
AWK : For Loop
Task on sed , awk and schedule execution to run it from crontab
Quiz on overall course as self test

Requirements

[optional] Just need ubuntu or linux or unix installed , you can use online free unix terminal also for practice

Description

Below are points that will be covered during the course along with real IT experience that will help one to speed up your work

when interacting with unix or linux OS.

Each IT professional or student must have this skill as these OS are widely used across all industry. Andriod is also a unix type Operating system.

User based operations , controlling process and memory , monitoring tools for disk management

Powerful Unix tool like cut, grep , sed , awk are covered here

How to explore new things in Unix and fix space issues etc such live scenario problem handling tips

Shell scripting , task scheduling, crontab , vi editor and lot more

Automation with shell script and working smartly when deploying application in linux /unix box , we must have good knowledge of unix

This course is designed in similar way where I have added my experience cases where I face challenges, and what tricks could have helped to me to work smartly

I have added few resources which will be very helpful as well as small quizzes to test your own skills .

You can use online free unix shell available to do hands-on that you will learn for this course.

If any one who has completed or enrolled to this course and want to know about any other unix command as well , kindly ask me question. I will reply within 24 to 48 hours

Who this course is for:

Every Beginner in IT industry
Beginner who want to learn Linux or Unix commands , shell scripting
Middle-ware support Engineer / Developer / Big Data Engineer / Tester / Production Support / Students

Unix Linux Commands with basic shell scripting 2025

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Course content

Introduction to Linux/Unix : Basic Commands6 lectures • 1hr 14min

Important tools of Unix : cut, find , grep, xargs , redirection and pipe6 lectures • 1hr 11min

Basic Shell scripting for automation and crontab for task scheduling5 lectures • 1hr 27min

Requirements

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