LINUX & SHELL PROGRAMMING

This course will help students to:

1. Work with basic commands of Linux
2. Implement various functionalities through shell scripting
3. Demonstrate virtual machine.

Contents:

• Introduction to Operating Systems, history, functions and types of operating system.
• Process Management: Basic Concepts of process and Process Scheduling,Operation on Processes.
• Memory Management: Basic Concepts of Logical versus Physical Address space, Swapping,Contiguous allocation (fragmentation), Paging,Segmentation.
• Introduction of Various Linux Distribution (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Cent OS,Fedora Projects,Debian Linux, Ubuntu, etc.), GNU-Linux connection.
• Linux Installation, Dual booting and Virtual machines
• Virtualization (Virtualbox, VMware, Hyper-V,...)
• Creating a new Virtual machine
• Configuring the VM
• Linux GUI, Logging in, Desktop Customization.
• General Purpose Utilities in Linux (date, cal, who, tty, uname, passwd, bc,script, echo, logging out).
• Linux File System: file types, file inode, Home directory and Current directory
• Navigating file system- pwd, cd, mkdir, rmdir,ls.
• Handling regular/ordinary files-cat, cp, mv, wc, rm, cmp.
• Basic file attributes- file permissions, changing permissions.
• Redirection & Pipes
• Simple filters- head, tail, cut, paste, sort, uniq, tr.
• Regular expression-Grep utility, Shell command line, redirection, pipeline, split output, tee.
• Working with Linux Process: Process, Shell process, Process spawning -parent and child process, Process attributes - pid, ppid, Init Process, User process & System process, ps with options.
• The Linux Environment: Environment variable vs Local variables, set command,env command, SHELL, HOME, PATH, LOGNAME, PS1, PS2, history, ! and ~
• Types of Text editors, using vi editor, prompt character, correcting typing errors.
• Simple filters Head tail sort cut paste
• grep & sed command
• Basic shell programming Interactive scripts, shell variables, assigning values to variables,Positional parameters, command line arguments, Arithmetic in shell script, Decision taking-if else,     nested if, file tests, string tests, case control structure. Loop control structure-while and for.
• Basics of System Administration: Root login-su User management - UID, GID,useradd, usermod, userdel Discs – Du, df
• Linux System Administration: creating user account, assigning groups on user creation. User password management, modifying user account, Group password and login, Administrating Group with gpasswd command,modifying and deleting groups
• Introduction to AWS: Getting Started with AWS, Basic Account Management Setting, Launching VM on cloud platform (AWS)