A beginner-friendly guide to getting up and running with the world's most powerful operating system
Ahmed AlKabary
Linux#
Beginner#
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Your First Keystrokes
Chapter 2: Climbing the Tree
Chapter 3: Meet the Editors
Chapter 4: Copying, Moving, and Deleting Files
Chapter 5: Read Your Manuals!
Chapter 6: Hard versus Soft Links
Chapter 7: Who Is Root?
Chapter 8: Controlling the Population
Chapter 9: Piping and I/O Redirection
Chapter 10: Analyzing and Manipulating Files
Chapter 11: Let's Play Find and Seek
Chapter 12: You Got a Package
Chapter 13: Kill the Process
Chapter 14: The Power of Sudo
Chapter 15: What's Wrong with the Network?
Chapter 16: Bash Scripting Is Fun
Chapter 17: You Need a Cron Job
Chapter 18: Archiving and Compressing Files
Chapter 19: Create Your Own Commands
Chapter 20: Everyone Needs Disk Space
Chapter 21: echo ”Goodbye My Friend”
About the author
Ahmed AlKabary is a professional Linux/UNIX system administrator working at IBM Canada. He has over seven years of experience working with various flavors of Linux systems. He also works as an online technical trainer/instructor at Robertson College. Ahmed holds two BSc degrees in computer science and mathematics from the University of Regina. He also holds the following certifications: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, and Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing & Switching (CCNA).