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Linux & the Command Line

Master the Linux operating system and the terminal: files, permissions, processes, text tools, shell scripting, networking and system administration.

22 lessons about 7 hours Medium
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What this course covers

  1. What Is Linux?
  2. The Shell & Terminal
  3. Navigating the Filesystem
  4. Creating & Managing Files
  5. Reading Files
  6. File Permissions
  7. Users, Groups & sudo
  8. Pipes & Redirection
  9. Searching: grep & find
  10. find, xargs & Power Combos
  11. Text Processing: cut, sort, uniq, sed, awk
  12. Processes & Jobs
  13. Installing Software
  14. Environment & the Shell Config
  15. Shell Scripting: First Script
  16. Shell Scripting: Logic & Loops
  17. Networking from the Terminal
  18. SSH: Remote Access & Secure Connections
  19. Archives & Compression
  20. System Monitoring & systemd
  21. Scheduling Jobs with cron
  22. Capstone: A Backup Script

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