Red Hat Certified System Administrator: The Command Line Overview/Description Target Audience Prerequisites Expected Duration Lesson Objectives Course Number Expertise Level Overview/Description
The command-line interface in Linux is a very powerful tool that is critical when administering a Linux system. In this course you will learn some of the more powerful features of the shell including how to use one command as input into another, how to edit files, run scripts, and use common commands that makes an administrators job easier. This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHCSA exam (EX200).
Target Audience
Established IT professionals who wish to acquire job skills and to be trained specifically to pass the Red Hat RHCSA EX200 certification exam
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
1.9
Lesson Objectives Red Hat Certified System Administrator: The Command Line
start the course
use input and output redirection to stdin and stdout to manage output from shell commands
use pipes to chain one command to another to alter the output
use globbing to select files based on matching filename patterns
switch users and shells within a Terminal window; in particular to become the root user to perform administrative tasks
switch to and back from TTY consoles in order to execute shell commands
use the find command to locate files based on their name or other properties
perform actions on files that are returned from a find command
identify the path and filename for a command or locate files that have been indexed
work with vim to open, do basic edits, and save a text file
use features of vim to search text, replace text, and add, remove, or delete lines
perform basic file operations and editing using the emacs text editor
use a shell text editor to create or edit a text file
work with sed to alter the contents of a text file
identify a BASH script file and the header specifying the interpreter used for the script
create a simple BASH script that can chain multiple commands together to perform an action
execute, pause, and run a script in the background and then bring it to the foreground
view the shell environment variables and be able to set a shell variable within a script
recognize an archived file and the tools necessary to retrieve the contents
use the gzip and gunzip commands to compress or decompress a file
use bzip2 to compress or decompress a file
use the tar command to create, extract, compress, or list the contents of an archive
use the star command to create, extract, compress, or list the contents of an archive that supports extended ACLs
use gzip and bzip2 with tar directory to compress and decompress in a stream
use additional, but not as often used in Linux, compression and decompression tools
use scripts to automate the management and archiving of files and directories
Course Number: lu_rhel_a02_it_enus
Expertise Level
Intermediate