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Course Goals
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To introduce users (who have never used Linux) to the Linux OS and command line environment.
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Use basic Linux commands from a command line interface within a terminal.
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How to find help on a particular command.
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Understand what a File System is and be able to navigate around, list folder contents, create folders, move, copy and delete files/folders.
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Introduce file/folder permissions and ownership.
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View the content of text-based files.
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Search a file for a string.
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Getting Started
01.01 Getting Started: What is Linux and Linux Distributions (distro)
What is an Operating System?
When you turn your device on, it boots up the operating system, which manages the communication/interface between your applications and the hardware it is running on.
What is Linux?
Linux is an Operating Systems – similar to Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android.
Linux is open-source – freely available – so you can download, modify and redistribute.
Due to this there are 10s of varieties of Linux Distributions (distros):
Debian
Ubuntu (based on Debian)
Fedora
Amazon Linux 2
Commercial: Red Hat (which we are using today)
Rocky Linux
There is a lot of commonality across these distros.
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01.02 Getting Started: Types of Environments
Types of Environment:
Desktop: Windows type Graphical User Interface (GUI) - mouse point and click.
Terminal: Program that opens a graphical window and runs a:
Shell which is a command interpreter that processes the typed commands.
Interface to the OS.
Provides a Command-Line Interface (CLI) – text-based input/output.
Different Shells share common commands, but syntax and behavior can be different.
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02 Using the Terminal
What does a prompt look like?
General syntax of shell command.
Commands/options are case sensitive.
Getting Help:
Man pages (
man)Options:
<command> --help
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02.01 Login
Open up Chrome
Navigate to: https://southpass.arcc.uwyo.edu/
Start Beartooth Shell Access
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Headers and Sections
Each sections should start with a header of ‘Heading 1’. This helps to make sure that the Table of Contents operates like an agenda. Also it helps when we “advance a slide” it jumps to the top of the section. Each section should be limited in length to no more than 14 lines of straight text to ensure that when presenting it can be viewed as a “Slide”.
This is 14 lines. A.K.A. the End
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