UNIT 1: Overview

• Objectives
• Agenda
• UNIX History
• UNIX Principles
• GNU Project / FSF
• GPL - GNU General Public License
• Linux Origins
• Why Linux?
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Recommended Hardware Specifications
• Local Logins
• Virtual Consoles
• The Xorg GUI Framework
• Xorg Graphical Environments
• Starting Xorg
• Changing Your Password

UNIT 2: Running Commands and Getting Help

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Running Commands
• Some Simple Commands
• Getting Help
• The whatis Command
• The --help Option
• Reading Usage Summaries
• The man Command
• Navigating man Pages
• The info Command
• Navigating info Pages
• Extended Documentation
• Red Hat Documentation
• Hands-on Lab: Getting Help with Commands

UNIT 3: Browsing the Filesystem

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Linux File Hierarchy Concepts
• Some Important Directories
• Other Important Directories
• Current Working Directory
• File and Directory Names
• Absolute Pathnames
• Relative Pathnames
• Changing Directories
• Listing Directory Contents
• Copying Files and Directories
• Copying Files and Directories: The Destination
• Moving and Renaming Files and Directories
• Moving and Renaming Files and Directories: The Destination
• Creating and Removing Files
• Creating and Removing Directories
• Using Nautilus
• Moving and Copying in Nautilus
• Determining File Content
• Viewing an Entire Text File
• Viewing Text Page by Page
• Hands-on Lab: Browsing the Filesystem

UNIT 4: The bash Shell

• Objectives
• Agenda
• bash Introduction
• bash Heritage and Features
• Command Line Shortcuts: File Globbing
• Command Line Shortcuts: The Tab Key
• Command Line Shortcuts: history
• Command Line Expansion: Tilde
• Command Line Expansion: Variable and String
• Command Line Expansion: Command and Math
• Protecting from Expansion: Backslash
• Protecting from Expansion: Quotes
• History Tricks
• Command Editing Tricks
• Command Editing Tricks: Editing Modes
• gnome-terminal
• Hands-on Lab: Exploring the bash Shell

UNIT 5: Standard I/O and Pipes

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Standard Input and Output
• Redirecting Input and Output
• Redirecting Output
• Redirecting Standard Output
• Overwriting or Appending
• Redirecting Standard Error
• Redirecting Both Standard Output and Error
• Redirecting Input
• Using Pipes to Connect Processes
• Useful Pipe Targets
• tee
• Hands-on Lab: Standard I/O and Pipes

UNIT 6: Users, Groups, and Permissions

• Objectives
• Agenda
• The Linux Security Model
• Users
• Groups
• The root User
• Linux File Security
• Permission Types
• Examing Permissions
• Interpreting Permissions
• Examining Directories
• Linux Process Security
• Changing Permissions- Symbolic Method
• Changing Permissions- Numeric Method
• Changing Permissions- Nautilus
• Hands-on Lab: File Permissions

UNIT 7: vi and vim Editor Basics and Printing

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Overview of vi and vim
• Starting vi and vim
• Three Modes of vi and vim
• Cursor Movement
• Entering Insert Mode
• Leaving Insert Mode: <Esc>
• Change, Delete, and Yank
• Put (paste)
• Undoing Changes
• Searching for Text
• Command-Mode Tricks
• Saving and Exiting: ex mode
• Printing in Linux
• Printing Commands
• Printing Utilities
• Hands-on Lab: vi and vim Editor Basics
• Section 2: Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Deeper View

UNIT 8: The Linux Filesystem In-Depth

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Partitions and Filesystems
• Inodes
• Directories
• Inodes and Directories
• cp and Inodes
• mv and Inodes
• rm and Inodes
• Symbolic (or Soft) Links
• Hard Links
• The Seven Fundamental Filetypes
• Checking Free Space
• Removable Media
• Mounting CDs and DVDs
• Mounting USB Media
• Mounting Floppy Disks
• Formatting Floppy Disks
• Why Archive Files?
• Creating an Archive
• Inspecting Archives
• Extracting an Archive
• Why Use File Compression?
• Compression Utilities
• Using Compression
• Compressing Archives
• tar to Unformatted Floppies
• Hands-on Lab: The Linux Filesystem

UNIT 9: Configuring the bash Shell

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Configuring the bash Shell
• Variables
• Configuring the Shell: Local Variables
• Common Local Variables
• The PS1 Local Variable
• Aliases
• Other Shell Configuration Methods
• Configuring Commands: Environment Variables
• Common Environment Variables
• The TERM Environment Variable
• The PATH Environment Variable
• How the Shell Expands the Command Line
• Shell Startup Scripts
• Login Shells
• Startup Scripts: Order of Execution
• /etc/profile
• /etc/profile.d
• ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc
• ~/.bash_logout
• Hands-on Lab: Configuring the bash Shell

UNIT 10: Advanced Topics in Users, Groups, and Permissions

• Objectives
• Agenda
• User and Group ID Numbers
• /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group Files
• System Users and Groups
• Changing Your Identity
• User Information Commands
• Default Permissions
• Special Permissions
• Special Permissions for Executables
• Special Permissions for Directories
• Hands-on Lab: Switching Users and Setting a umask

UNIT 11: Advanced Uses of the vi and vim Editors

• Objectives
• Agenda
• File Repositioning
• Screen Repositioning
• Filtering
• ex mode: Search and Replace
• Visual Mode
• Advanced Reading and Saving
• Configuring vi and vim
• Expanding your Vocabulary
• A Peek at the Appendix
• Hands-on Lab: Advanced Uses of the vi and vim Editors
• Section 3: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Power Tools

UNIT 12: Introduction to String Processing

• Objectives
• Agenda
• head
• tail
• tail - continued
• wc
• sort
• uniq
• cut
• Other String Processing Tools
• Version Comparison with diff
• Spell Checking with aspell
• Formatting Tools
• Hands-on Lab: Introduction to String Processing

UNIT 13: String Processing with Regular Expressions

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Pattern Matching with Regular Expresions
• Wildcard Characters
• Modifiers
• Anchors
• regex Combinations
• Regular Expressions - Examples
• Quote your regex's!
• grep
• sed
• Using sed
• less and slocate
• Regular Expressions in vi and vim
• Extended Regular Expressions
• Extended regex Syntax
• awk
• Using awk
• Hands-on Lab: String Processing with Regular Expressions

UNIT 14: Finding and Processing Files

• Objectives
• Agenda
• slocate
• slocate Examples
• find
• Basic find Examples
• find and Logical Operators
• find and Permissions
• find and Numeric Criteria
• find and Access Times
• Executing Commands with find
• find Execution Examples
• The Gnome Search Tool
• Hands-on Lab: Finding and Processing Files

UNIT 15: Investigating and Managing Processes

• Objectives
• Agenda
• What is a Process?
• How Processes Are Created
• Process Ancestry
• Process States
• Viewing Processes
• Sending Signals to Processes
• Terminating Processes
• Altering Process Scheduling Priority
• Altering Process Scheduling Priority- continued
• Interactive Process Management Tools
• Running a Process in the Foreground
• Running a Process in the Background
• Suspending a Process
• Listing Background and Suspended Jobs
• Resuming Suspended Jobs
• Compound Commands
• Scheduling a Process to Execute Later
• Scheduling Periodic Processes
• Using cron
• Crontab File Format
• Hands-on Lab: Process Control
• UNIT 16: Network Clients
• Objectives
• Agenda
• Web Clients
• Firefox
• Other GUI Web Browsers
• Non-GUI Web Browsers
• wget
• Email and Messaging
• Evolution
• Configuring Evolution
• Evolution and GnuPG
• Other GUI Mail Clients
• Non-GUI Mail Clients
• Gaim
• Remote Access and File Transfer
• ssh: Secure Shell
• scp: Secure Copy
• telnet and the "r" Services
• rsync
• lftp
• gFTP
• smbclient
• File Transfer with Nautilus
• Xorg Clients
• Network Diagnostic Tools
• Hands-on Lab: Network Clients

UNIT 17: bash Shell Scripting

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Scripting Basics
• Creating Shell Scripts
• Creating Shell Scripts- Continued
• Generating Output
• Handling Input
• Exit Status
• Control Structures
• Conditional Execution
• Selection Structures: Using the if Statement
• File Tests
• String Tests
• Selection Structures: Using if / else Statements
• Selection Structures: Using the case Statement
• Repetition Structures: The for loop
• for and sequences
• Selection Structures: The while loop
• continue and break
• Using Positional Parameters
• Handling Parameters with Spaces
• Handling Filenames with Spaces
• Using Functions in Shell Scripts
• Using Functions - continued
• Scripting at the Command Line
• Shell Script Debugging
• Hands-on Lab: bash Shell Scripting

UNIT 18: So... What now?

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Some Areas to Explore
• Development
• Red Hat Development Classes
• System Administrator Duties
• RHCE/RHCT Skills Courses
• RHCA Skills Courses
• The Linux Community