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Linux Basics

Linux basics lesson course for ICTP Diploma students

Linux Basics

• [What is Linux & the terminal][ok]
• [Filesystem: folders (/home, /tmp, /usr, /inc...)][ok]
• [cd (., .., /, -, ~)][ok]
• [ls (-l)][ok]
• [touch][ok]
• [mkdir][ok]
• [rm (-r, -i, -v)][ok]
• [mkdir, touch, rm exercises][ok]
• [cp, mv][ok]
• [find][ok]
• [exercises on cp, mv, find][ok]

Programming/advanced editors/General stuff

• [Brief introduction to vim (insert mode, saving/quitting, moving, visual/block, macros?)][ok]
• [What is a program/programming][ok]
• [Compiling][ok]
• [brief introduction to makefiles][ok]
• [permissions & chmod (ua, +/-, rwx (search for dirs))][ok]
• [dealing with processes: ./..., ./... &, ps, top (P,M), kill, pkill][ok]
• [ssh/scp, general practices of using clusters (slurm...)][ok]

Text file manipulation

• [stackoverflow][ok]
• [cat, tail, head][ok]
• [piping and redirection][ok]
• [Creating a bash script (opening handle) + how to execute it][ok]
• [cat, tail, head exercises][ok]
• [grep][ok]
• [grep exercises][ok]
• [regexp][ok]
• [elements of sed (delete when occurrence, add when occurrence, replace, -i)][ok]
• [sed exercises][ok]
• [cut, paste][ok]
• [sort][ok]
• [cut, paste, sort exercises][ok]
• [elements of awk (print only a field, manipulate a field, add row numbers)][ok]
• [awk exercises][ok]

Basic bash scripting

• [Variables][ok]
• [read (-p), echo][ok]
• [Command line arguments][ok]
• [Conditionals][ok]
• [Loops][ok]
• ave (wc)

More stuff, maybe put it somewhere

• aliasing
• create an archive (tar -cvzf, -xvzf)