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Linux: Shells and Processes

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Gain a thorough understanding of the shell and system processes to help you work faster and more efficiently in Linux.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Be more productive in the Linux shell
  • What you should know
  • Reconfigure or migrate to CentOS
1. Linux Shells Overview
  • About Linux shells
  • About Linux terminals
  • Shell pathname tricks
  • Shell history tricks
  • Configure shell history
  • Variables and shell environment
  • Make shell variables persistent
  • Pattern matching with globs
  • Globs exercise
  • Pattern matching with extended globs
  • Extended glob exercise
2. Using the Bash Shell
  • Escape characters and quotes
  • Brace expansion
  • Command and variable substitution
  • Command input and output
  • Connecting programs with pipes
  • File redirects and tees
  • Combining pipes, redirects, and tees
  • Command lists and subshells
3. Linux Processes
  • Introduction to processes
  • Monitor processes using ps
  • Monitor processes in real time
  • Monitor processes graphically
  • Manage processes
  • Process priority
  • Manage process jobs
4. System Services
  • Introduction to system services
  • Get systemd service status
  • Manage systemd services
  • Make systemd services persistent
5. Job Scheduling
  • Introduction to job scheduling
  • One time jobs using at and batch
  • About cronjobs
  • Recurring user jobs using cron
  • Recurring system-wide jobs using cron
  • Limit access to AT and cron
  • Using systemd timer units

Taught by

Grant McWilliams

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