Introduction to Linux/Unix Bash Shell Scripting

History of Linux Bash Shell

Layered Architecture Configuration Scripts
Kernel & Shell Shell Variables
Common UNIX Flavors Environment Variables
System Boot Up Set & unset of variables
Virtual Consoles Exporting Variables
Configuring Shell
Linux Fundamentals Use of /etc/profile and .profile
Introduction to Bash shell Exit status of a Command
Getting Started Shell prompts cat Command
Linux Command Arguments & Options Standard Files
Basic Commands I/O Redirection
pwd, date, who, id Sample Shell script
uname, whereis, tty Executing a Shell script
Getting help on Commands Passing parameters to Shell script
Managing Files & Directories Arithmetic Operations
Hard Link & Soft Link Logical Operations
vi Editor Conditional Statements
Files & Directories Search Iterative Statments
find command Case Statements
Filters Functionss
tee, wc, tr, cut Debugging Shell scripts
sort, head, tail
more, less, grep Linux/Unix Backup Tool
File System Commands Backup through tar / cpio / dd commands
df & du Recovering single / multiple files
Awk Programming Language
Working with Run Levels Linux/Unix Networking
Shutting the System down IPv4 Fundamentals
System Directories TCP/UDP Fundamentals
Linux Network Interfaces
User Management Services & Ports
User and Group Concepts ping
Creating, modifying and deleting User Accounts telnet
Creating, modifying and deleting Group ssh
Accounts netstat tool
Password Aging
Default User Files Job Scheduling
The su command switch between users Scheduling jobs through at & cron
Understanding File and Directory Permissions Managing access permissions to at & cron
chown & chgrp utilities
umask command crontab file format

Process Management Performance Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Viewing Processes
Process Tree & Process Status
ps & pstree commands
Identifying System & Daemon Processes
Foreground and Background Processes
Tuning Process Scheduling
System Status Resource Consumption
System Status Memory Usage
System Status I/O Activity
System Status CPU Usage
Resource Usage Trends
top, iostat, vmstat, sar commands
Process Priority
nice & renice commands
Killing / Terminating a Processes
Max Processes per User ulimit
Software Package Management
Software Repositories
Redhat Vs. Debian
Redhat Tools rpm and yum
Debian Tools dpkg and apt-get
Troubleshooting Methods
Process Profiling
Process Syscall Tracing strace
Process Libcall Tracing ltrace
Process Kernel/User Space Time Check
Filesystem Corruptions and Recovery
Installation of Linux OS
Partition Considerations
Installing Linux DVD/Virtual Machine