This course covers the following topics:

• Installing VirtualBox and Linux Mint - Covers the basic installation to get you up and running for this course.

• Editors - Vi and Notepad++. Discussion of the command based Vi Editor and some regular editor options.

• Account Management - Root, Sudo, Admin and Regular users.

• File and Directory Permissions - Permissions on Files and Folders. User, Group and Others.

• Linux Commands - File and Directory Commands, User Info Commands, Networking Commands, SSH and File Transfer Commands, Disk Commands, Security Commands, Archiving Commands, Search Commands, Installation Commands

• Vi Editor - Commands frequently used in the Vi Editor.

• Shell Expansion - Brace expansion, Tilde expansion, Parameter expansion, Command substitution, Arithmetic expansion, Process substitution, Word splitting, Filename expansion, Quotes.

• Basic Shell Scripting - Fundamentals of Shell Scripting.

• Braces, Brackets & Parentheses - Evaluation of Expressions.

• File Descriptors - Std Input, Std Output & Std Error

• Iterations - While loops, For loops, Until loops

• Conditionals

  • Case Statements

  • IF Statements

• Regular Expressions - Use of Regular Expressions in Pattern Matching.

• Arrays

• AWK - Use of AWK to extract and format data.

• SED - Use of SED to perform search and replace functions.

• Grep - Use of Grep to search for patterns of data.

• Utilities - Cut, Sort and Uniq

• Cron Scheduling - Perform automated batch processing.

• Processing Input and Output

• Master Script - 5hrs of content covering different areas of Corporate Shell scripting