Linux Command-Line & Shell Scripting for Absolute Beginners

In this lecture we go over a high level overview of what we will be covering in this course.

This is a collection of slides I used for the course.

In this lesson we go over the process of installing Oracle Virtual Box, which is the hypervisor that hosts the Virtual Machines. Then we install Linux Mint.

In this lesson we go over the installation of the Vim editor and Notepad++, which is the alternative in case you want to skip key commands and use a traditional text editor.

In this lesson we go over the different types of roles - Administrative, Regular User and Root and the management of these roles in an efficient manner.

In this lesson we go over an overview of File and Directory permissions

In this lesson we study the effects of User, Group and Other permissions on Files and Directories

This section is Part 1 of 3 of our lesson on Linux Commands. The lesson is intended to be a comprehensive primer on the most frequently used commands in different categories.

This section is Part 2 of 3 of our lesson on Linux Commands. The lesson is intended to be a comprehensive primer on the most frequently used commands in different categories.

This section is Part 3 of 3 of our lesson on Linux Commands. The lesson is intended to be a comprehensive primer on the most frequently used commands in different categories.

In this lesson we go over the most commonly used commands in the Vim Editor.

In this lesson we go over Shell Expansion which is fundamental to evaluating complex shell scripting expressions. We need to get a firm grasp over evaluating expressions since these are the fundamental building blocks of any shell script.

This is Part 1 of 3 lectures in this section pertaining to Basic Shell Scripting. This lecture goes over a basic script which demonstrates how to read input parameters to a shell script.

This is Part 2 of 3 lectures in this section pertaining to Basic Shell Scripting. This lecture goes over a basic script which demonstrates how to read input parameters to a shell script.

This is Part 3 of 3 lectures in this section pertaining to Basic Shell Scripting. This lecture goes over a basic script which demonstrates how to read input parameters to a shell script.

In this lesson we go over Logical Operators and the principal constructs for combining expressions - Braces, Brackets and Parentheses

In this lesson we go over the File Descriptors - Standard Input, Standard Output and Standard Error

In this lesson we go over the core Iteration constructs - For loops, While loops, Until loops

In this lesson we study the IF statement which is one of the constructs of Conditional processing

In this lesson we study the Case statement which is one of the constructs of Conditional processing

In this lesson we study Regular Expressions which are a sequence of characters that match a pattern in text.

In this lesson we study Arrays which are the fundamental construct for handling Collections of items

In this lesson we go over an overview of AWK which is a scripting language geared towards data extraction and reporting

In this lesson we study about use of pattern matching constructs in AWK statements.

In this lesson we study about SED, a stream editor, which is used to transform text.

In this lesson we study Grep which is a utility to search files for patterns.

In this lesson we study the ultilities Cut, Sort and Uniq.

In this lesson we study about Cron, a utility for job scheduling.

In this lesson we learn how input parameters to the Shell script are processed.

In this lesson we learn how inputs are processed within a Shell script.

In this lesson we learn how outputs are processed within a Shell script.

In this lesson we set up a barebone shell script with logging.

In this lesson we use Getopts to handle input parameter processing.

In this lesson we add some functionality to delete empty lines and comments in a text file.

In this lesson we study about document merging whereby a config file is used to merge information into a template and produce multiple outputs.

In this lesson we create a custom listing of users and groups from a system group file.

In this lesson we create a Sales report using aggregation for totals.

In this lesson we create a Sales report using pivoting.

In this lesson we write code to perform hard disk monitoring and delete a file when it crosses a threshold size.

In this lesson we write code to backup and delete files.

In this lesson we learn to format phone numbers in a report.

In this lesson we filter and format a report. We also perform compressions on a report and copy it over to an archive directory.