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Linux overview

Differences - Linux and Windows

Differences - Unix and Linux

Linux distros

Linux kernel

Linux file structure

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Installing Linux

Changing the boot order in BIOS

Installing Ubuntu

Logging in

Linux shell

Linux shell

Bourne-again shell (Bash)

Start the shell

Basic Linux commands

history command

man command

info command

Working with directories

Working with files

Environment variables

Common environment variables

PATH variable

inodes

Links

Hard links

Symbolic links

Wildcards

Streams

Redirecting input and output

Piping data between programs

sort command

grep command

find command

locate command

wc command

file command

whereis command

tail command

head command

tee command

Working with text files

Types of text editors

gedit text editor

KWrite text editor

Pico text editor

nano text editor

less

Managing processes

What are processes?

ps command

top command

kill command

killall command

nice and renice commands

Background and foreground

jobs command

Installing software

Package management

RPM Package Manager

Debian Package Manager

Advanced Packaging Tool (APT)

apt-cache

apt-get

dselect

aptitude

tar command

cpio command

alien command

Managing users and groups

root user

Creating users

Deleting users 

Modifying users *

chage command

/etc/passwd file

/etc/shadow file

Groups in Linux

Creating groups

Deleting groups

Modifying groups

/etc/group file

/etc/skel directory

Setting ownerships and permissions

Managing file ownership

chown command

Permissions

Permission bits

File type codes

chmod command

umask command

chattr command

Managing hardware

procfs (/proc)

Interrupt request (IRQ)

I/O Addresses

Direct memory access (DMA)

Kernel module

Loading Kernel modules

Removing Kernel modules

Identifying CPU

Booting Linux

GRUB Legacy

GRUB 2

Alternative Boot Loaders

dmesg command

Runlevel

inittab

Basic networking

What is an IP address?

What is a MAC address?

What is DHCP ?

What is DNS?

ifconfig command

Configuring DHCP Client on Ubuntu

ping command

traceroute command

host command

dig command

nslookup command

netstat command

tcpdump command

whois command

Configuring hard disks

File systems

ext2 file system

ext3 file system

ext4 file system

Reiser file system

XFS file system

JFS file system

FAT file system

NTFS file system

ISO-9660 file system

Disk partitioning

Swap partition

Disk interfaces

MBR Partitions

GPT Partitions

fdisk

GNU Parted

Creating a file system

Mounting a file system

/etc/fstab

Mounting an USB device

df command

du command

Checking file systems

Obtaining file system information

Adjusting file system parameters

Debugging a file system

Disk quota

Enabling quota support

Setting quotas

Disk quota reporting

Logging

syslog protocol

syslogd

rsyslog

logger command

logrotate - log rotation

Linux log files

/var/log/messages

Maintaining system time

date command

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

Managing email

Email protocols

Mail servers

mail command

Redirecting email

Shell scripting

What is a shell script?

Creating shell scripts

Writing shell scripts

If statement

Case statement

For loops

While loop

Until loop

Advanced Linux commands

which command

uniq command

join command

paste command

expand command

pr command

split command

dd command

cut command

shutdown command

alias command

od command

nl command

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