TuxWars Topics

Basics

• What is Linux? Why Linux? Linux vs Windows
• Linux Directory Hierarchy : here
• Commands like: pwd, ls, ls -a, ls -l, cd, mkdir, mkdir -p, who, w, whoami, rm, rm -r, mv, vi, cat, less, man, cp, history, echo (with options), find, locate, passwd.

• pipe(

  ), redirection (> and <) : here at tldp { btw : tldp is an excellent resource :) }

• Shell Scripting (special shell variables($?, $$), if/else, switch case, for, while)
• Wildcards :
  • read here at tldp
  • see it in action at techmint.com
• sudo
• File system Hierarchy 3.0 : here
• File permissions
• Intro to text editors: VI, gedit etc, C hello world program using VI
• grep, cut, ssh, tr

Main

• Linux Booting Process here at slashroot.in.
• System daemons
• Special files (.bashrc, /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd), passwd command
• package manager pacman, yum, zypper, apt-get, yast
• sudo, su
• Environment Variables.
• inodes, stat and ls -i.
• Hard and Soft links (ln command)
• free
• ps, top, jobs, bg, fg
• head, tail
• find, locate.
• man, apropos.
• tar
• wall, write, mesg.
• eval,bc.
• Signals, kill, trap.
• chmod,chown, chgrp, umask ls -l output, setuid, setgid and sticky bits.
• awk sed

Networking:

• ping
• ifconfig
• Ports /etc/services
• nmap
• ssh, scp
• netcat

System Programming:

• fork
• exec
• wait
• exit
• zombie and orphan processes.
• Buffering (Fully Buffered, line Buffered, Unbuffered)
• Inter Process Communication(Pipe, FIFO)

Reference Books:

• The linux command line (TLCL) book : here
• Unix - Concepts and Applications by Sumitabha Das.
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment by Richard W. Stevens.

Note: This is not the syllabus and are just few topics you should explore.