Linux Training - Melbourne, Australia

Everything is a file in UNIX/Linux (files, directories, executables, processes), Process control commands (ps and kill), other process control tools (top, nice, renice).

Hands-on Exercise – Executing ps and kill commands on running services, Monitoring the OS using top.

What is shell scripting, Types of shell, Creating and writing a shell script, Changing the permission of the shell script, Executing the script, Environment variables, Defining a local and a global variable, User input in a shell script.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating a shell script, Writing and executing the shell script, creating a local and a global variable, taking input from the user in a shell script.

What are Conditional statements, Using IF, IF-ELSE, Nested IF statements, What are Looping statements, Using WHILE, UNTIL and FOR statements, Using the case…esac statement, What is a Function, Creating a function in Linux, Calling functions.

Hands-on Exercise – Executing IF, IF-ELSE, Nested IF statements, Executing WHILE, UNTIL and FOR statements, Executing the case…..esac statement, creating a function in multiple ways, calling a function in a file, calling a function from another file.

Using GREP command, Using SED command, Using AWK command, Mounting a file to the virtual box, Creating a shared folder (mounting a folder), Using SORT command and Using pipes to combine multiple Commands.

Hands-on Exercise – Executing commands using GREP, Executing commands using SED, Executing commands using AWK, Mounting a folder in the Windows OS to the Linux OS, Installing VirtualBox guest additions on CentOS 8, Extracting zipped files.

What are Daemons, Introduction to Task scheduling in Linux, Scheduling a job in Linux, What is Cron and Crontab, How to use cron, Using the AT command.

Hands-on Exercise – Starting, Stopping and Restarting Daemon processes, Scheduling jobs using cron and crontab, Scheduling a one time task using AT, Managing scheduled tasks using ATQ and ATRM.

Why monitoring, Introduction to process monitoring, Top vs HTop, What does PGREP do, Introduction to file and folder monitoring, Monitoring tool inotifywait, inotifywait options for folder monitoring, Events of a folder in inotify, the FREE command.

Hands-on Exercise – Using Top to moniter the OS, Installing Htop, Using Htop to monitor the OS, Filtering and sorting using Htop, Installing inotify tools, monitoring a folder using inotifywait, monitoring a folder only for certaing events, using the FREE command.

Installing and configuring MySQL, Securing MySQL, Running Queries from terminal, Running Queries from a shell script.

Hands-on Exercise – Downloading and installing MySQL, Connecting to MySQL from terminal, Querying directly from the terminal, Pushing the query result inside a file, CRUD operations from a shell script.

What is networking in Linux, Why do we need networking, Using networking commands – IFCONFIG, PING, Wget and cURL, SSH, SCP and FTP, Learning Firewall tools – iptables and firewalld, DNS and Resolving IP address, /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname, nslookup and dig.

Hands-on Exercise – Executing all the networking commands, Using iptables and firewalld, Adding and removing ports, Resolving IP address in /etc/hosts, looking into a websites IP and nameservers using nslookup and dig.