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What Will You Learn Today?
✓ Birth of Linux: Why did Linux become popular?
✓ Various distributions of Linux
✓ Getting started with Linux
✓ Basic Linux commands
✓ Working with files & directories
✓ Adding/ deleting users
✓ Networking in Linux: Using SSH for communication

Why Did Linux Become Popular?

Birth Of Linux
1969
 Birth of ‘C’ and Unix OS

Birth Of Linux
1970’s
 Growth of Unix because of open-source collaboration
 Commercial sale of Unix
1969
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Birth Of Linux
1970’s
1969
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1980s
Companies developing their own Unix:- IBM(AIX),
Solaris(Sun OS), HP(HP-UX)....
Mid-to-late 1980s
 Birth of free software movement  GNU Project

Birth Of Linux
1980s
Companies developing their own Unix:- IBM(AIX),
Solaris(Sun OS), HP(HP-UX)....
Mid-to-late 1980s
 Birth of free software movement  GNU Project
1970’s
1990s
 Linus Torvalds put the Linux kernel source code online.
Resulted in usage of ‘Linux + GNU’
1969
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Various Linux Distributions
F e d o r a
R E D H AT E N T E R P R I S E
L I N U X
D e b i a n
O t h e r s
01
02
03
04
Commercial Linux
distribution intended for
servers and workstations.
Sponsored by
Red Hat, is the
foundation for the
commercial RHEL
Debian is an OS
composed only of
free, open-source
software.
Other popular distributions include:
Ubuntu, Linux Mint, CentOS,
openSUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprise….

Linux’s Features
Free
Software
Licensing
Better
Malware
Protection
Multiple
Distributions
Access To
Source Code
Simplified
Updates For All
Installed S/W

Hands-on: Linux Commands
02
cat, grep, sort,
pipe commands
03
cp, mv, mkdir,
rm, rmdir & user
permissions
04
Linux repository,
tar files, env var
& regex
05
Processes,
adding users
& ssh
01
pwd, clear, ls &
cd commands

Working With Directories: ‘pwd’ & ‘clear’
 Linux provides a CLI (Command Line Interface) to communicate with the OS.
 CLI is better for tasks which cannot be performed with the GUI.
Command Explanation
pwd Displays the current working directory of the terminal
/ Root directory
echo Command that writes its arguments to standard output.
su Used to switch to root user(so that super user permissions can be used to execute commands)
su username Used to switch to a different user
sudo Executes only that command with root/ super user privileges
clear This command is used to clear the terminal screen. Contents will not be deleted but scrolled down

Working With Directories: ‘ls’ Command
$ ls [options] [file | Directory]
ls This command lists all the contents in the current working directory
ls path By specifying the path after ls, the content in that path will be displayed
ls –l Using ‘l’ flag, lists all the contents along with its owner settings, permissions & time stamp (long format)
ls –a Using ‘a’ flag, lists all the hidden contents in the specified directory
ls --author Using ‘--author’ flag, lists the contents in the specified directory along with its owner
ls –S Using ‘a’ flag, sorts and lists all the contents in the specified directory by size
ls *.html Using ‘*’ flag, lists only the contents in the directory of a particular format
ls –lS > file.txt Using ‘>’ flag, copies the result of ls command into a text file

Working With Directories: ‘cd’
cd Changes the directory to the home directory
cd ~ This command also changes the directory to home directory
cd / Changes the directory to root directory
cd .. Changes the directory to its parent directory
cd ‘xx yy’ We specify the folder name in inverted commas because there is a space in the folder name
$ cd [directory]

Hands-on: Linux Commands
02
cat, grep, sort,
pipe commands
03
cp, mv, mkdir,
rm, rmdir & user
permissions
04
Linux repository,
tar files, env var
& regex
05
Processes,
adding users
& ssh
0101
pwd, clear, ls &
cd commands
01
pwd, clear, ls &
cd commands

Working With Files: ‘cat’ Command
$ cat [options] file1 [file2..]
cat This command is used to display the content of text files and concatenate several files into one
cat -b This is used to add line numbers to non blank lines
cat -n This is used to add line numbers to all lines
cat -s This is used to squeeze blank lines into one line
cat –E Show $ at the end of line
$ cat > file1.txt
The ‘>’ flag can be used to create a new file and enter text contents from the terminal
$ cat >> file1.txt
The ‘>>’ flag can be used to append text contents to an existing file from the terminal

Working With ‘grep’ Command
We use the ‘grep’ command to search for a particular string/ word in a text file.
This is similar to “Ctrl+F”, but executed via a CLI.
$ grep options file1.txt // Returns results for matching string “options”
$ grep –i options file1.txt // Returns the results for case insensitive strings
$ grep –n options file1.txt // Returns the matching strings along with their line number
$ grep –v options file1.txt // Returns the result of lines not matching the search string
$ grep –c options file1.txt // Returns the number of lines in which the results matched search string

Working With ‘sort’ Command
We use the ‘sort’ command to sort the results of a search either alphabetically or numerically.
Files, file contents and directories can be sorted.
$ sort file1.txt // Sorts the contents of file1.txt and returns them in alphabetical order
$ sort File1.txt File2.txt // Sorts the contents of both File1.txt & File2.txt
$ sort –r file1.txt // ‘r ’ flag returns the results in reverse order;
$ sort –f file1.txt // ‘f’ flag does case insensitive sorting
$ sort –n file1.txt // ‘n’ flag returns the results as per numerical order

Working With ‘|’ Command
The ‘|’ command a.k.a ‘pipe’ command is used to output the result of one command as input to another command.
‘|’ are used to perform two operations in the same command
$ grep dh File1.txt File2.txt | sort // Searches for string ‘dh’ from both files and sorts the results
$ grep dh File1.txt File2.txt | sort -r // Sorts the results in reverse order

Working With Files & Directories: ‘cp’ Command
$ cp [options] source destination
cp This command is used to copy files and directories
cp -i Enters interactive mode; CLI asks before overwriting files
cp -n Does not overwrite the file
cp -u Updates the destination file only when source file is different from destination file
cp -R Recursive copy for copying directories; Copies even hidden files
cp -v Verbose; Prints informative messages

Working With Files & Directories: ‘mv’ Command
$ mv [options] source destination
mv This command is used to move files and directories
mv -i Enters interactive mode; CLI asks before overwriting files
mv -u Updates the destination file only when source file is different from destination file
mv -v Verbose; Prints source and destination files

Working With Directories: ‘mkdir’ Command
$ mkdir directory-path
mkdir This command is used to create a new directory
mkdir -p Creates both a new parent directory and a sub-directory
mkdir --parents This is also used for the same process
mkdir –p file1/{f2,f3,f4} This is used to create multiple subdirectories inside the new parent directory

Working With Files & Directories: ‘rm’ & ‘rmdir’
$ rmdir foldername
$ rm filename/ foldername
rmdir This command is used to remove the specified directory (Empty)
rmdir –p Removes both the parent and child directory
rmdir –pv Removes all the parent and sub directories along with the verbose.
rm –r Removes even non empty directories.
rm –rp Removes non empty directories including parent and subdirectories.

Working With User Permissions: ‘r’, ‘w’ & ‘x’
$ l s – l
$ e d u r e k a 5 2 5 5 0 4 0 2 A u g 1 2 2 0 1 6
FILE/DIR
TYPE
USER
PERMISSIONS
GROUP
PERMISSIONS
Other’s
PERMISSIONS
Read – ‘r’
Write – ‘w’
Execute – ‘x’
FILE PERMISSIONS
Normal File – ‘-’
Directory – ‘d’
Character Special File – ‘c’
Binary Special File – ‘b’
FILE TYPES

$ l s – l
$ 1 e d u r e k a e d u r e k a 5 2 5 5 0 4 0 2 A u g 1 2 2 0 1 6
FILE/DIR
TYPE
USER
PERMISSIONS
GROUP
PERMISSIONS
Other’s
PERMISSIONS
SYMBOLIC
LINKS
Owner
Name
Group
Name
Read – ‘r’
Write – ‘w’
Execute – ‘x’
FILE PERMISSIONS
FILE TYPES

$ l s – l
$ 1 e d u r e k a e d u r e k a 5 2 5 5 0 4 0 2 A u g 1 2 2 0 1 6
FILE/DIR
TYPE
USER
PERMISSIONS
GROUP
PERMISSIONS
Other’s
PERMISSIONS
SYMBOLIC
LINKS
Owner
Name
Group
Name
Time
Stamp
FILE
SIZE
Read – ‘r’
Write – ‘w’
Execute – ‘x’
FILE PERMISSIONS
FILE TYPES
Users – ‘u’
Groups – ‘g’
Others – ‘o’
All – ‘a’
DENOTIONS

Commands Explanation
chmod g+wx filename This gives the write and execute permission to group members
chmod u=rwx,o-wx filename
This gives the read, write and execute permission to owners, and
removes the write and execute ownership from other members
chown username filename Changes the owner of the specified file
chown username:groupname filename Changes both the owner and group ownership of the specified file
chgrp groupname filename Changes the group ownership of the specified file
chmod : To change the access permissions of files and directories
chown : To change the owner of files and directories
chgrp : To change the group ownership of file and directories

Working With Linux Repositories
$ sudo yum install package-name // For RHEL based systems
$ sudo apt-get install package-name: // For Debian based systems
$ sudo dnf install package-name // For Fedora based systems
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk
$ update-alternatives --config java // For selecting from various java versions
$ cd
$ sudo gedit .bashrc
# Set the Environment variables here
$ source .bashrc
Java8 Installation
Stable versions of most software's will already be available in Linux repositories. Command to install them:

Working With Tar Files
When you download a package from the internet, the downloaded file comes in compressed form.
Commands to decompress and compress files in Linux:
$ tar –cvf tar-file-name file-name // Compressing files to Tar format
$ tar –xvf tar-file-name // Extracting/ Decompressing files in Tar format
gzip: To compress files with .gz format
gunzip: To decompress .gz files
tar: To compress and decompress files with .tar format

Environment Variables
Environment variables control the behavior of the software packages installed in Linux.
The path where the packages have been installed will be specified in environment variables.
$ printenv // Prints the list of all environment variables
$ echo $HOME // This will print the path of the home directory of the user
$ echo $PATH // It is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for commands
$ echo $HOSTNAME // This will print the hostname
$ echo $USERNAME // This will print the username
$ echo $LANG // This will print the language being used
$ echo $BASH_VERSION // This will print the version of this instance of bash

Regular Expressions
Regular Expressions (RegEx) are used to search through data.
It can be piped along with ‘grep’ command to find patterns of text in the file.
$ cat File1.txt | grep ^a
$ grep 'a[0-9]x' File1.txt
$ ls | grep '[xt$]'
Symbol Explanation
. Replaces any character
^ Matches the start of the string
$ Matches the end of the string
* Matches the preceding character zero or more times
? Matches the preceding character one or more times
( ) Groups regular expressions
Represents special characters
$ ls | grep 'le[0-9].txt‘
$ grep -n ['a*'] File1.txt
$ grep ['d.d'] File1.txt
$ echo {a..z}
$ echo {4..45}
$ echo 1{a..z}9

Processes
 An instance of a program is called a process.
 Any command given to Linux kernel starts a new process.
 There can be multiple processes (instances) of the same program.
Processes
Foreground
Processes
Background
Processes
$ t o p
P I D U S E R P R N I V R T R E S S H R S % C P U % M E M T I M E + C O M M A N D
Process
ID
User Name
Priority
Niceness
Value
Virtual
Memory
Physical
Memory
Shared
Memory
Status
CPU Time
Physical
Memory Used
Total CPU
Time
Command

Creating Users
$ sudo useradd user-name // Adding a new user
$ sudo passwd user-name // Setting a password for that user
$ sudo userdel user-name // Deleting that user
$ sudo groupadd group-name // Adding a new group
$ sudo groupdel group-name // Deleting that group
$ sudo usermod -g group-name user-name // Adding a user to a primary group

SSH (Secure Shell) For Remote Machine Access
$ service iptables stop // Drops the IP table
$ sudo chkconfig iptables off // Permanently disbales the IP table
$ sudo gedit /etc/hosts // Add the below IP addresses in both the master and slave’s hosts file
master 192.168.56.102
slave 192.168.56.103
$ ip addr show // To show the IP address
$ sudo ip addr del ip-address dev eth1 // Deleting existing IP
$ sudo ip addr add 192.168.56.102/24 dev eth1 // Adding IP at the master’s node
$ sudo ip addr add 192.168.56.103/24 dev eth1 // Adding IP at the slave’s node
$ ssh master // Running this command at the slave node will give remote access to master
$ ssh slave // Running this command at the master node will give remote access to slave

Summary Slide
Birth Of Linux Linux Distributions Basic Linux Commands
Working With Files &
Directories
Repos, TAR, Env Var, RegEx Processes, Users & SSH

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