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About the Course

This course provides a practical understanding of common Linux / UNIX shell commands. In this beginner friendly course, you will learn about the Linux basics, Shell commands, and Bash shell scripting. You will begin this course with an introduction to Linux and explore the Linux architecture. You will interact with the Linux Terminal, execute commands, navigate directories, edit files, as well as install and update software. Next, you’ll become familiar with commonly used Linux commands. You will work with general purpose commands like id, date, uname, ps, top, echo, man; directory management commands such as pwd, cd, mkdir, rmdir, find, df; file management commands like cat, wget, more, head, tail, cp, mv, touch, tar, zip, unzip; access control command chmod; text processing commands - wc, grep, tr; as well as networking commands - hostname, ping, ifconfig and curl. You will then move on to learning the basics of shell scripting to automate a variety of tasks. You’ll create simple to more advanced shell scripts that involve Metacharacters, Quoting, Variables, Command substitution, I/O Redirection, Pipes & Filters, and Command line arguments. You will also schedule cron jobs using crontab. The course includes both video-based lectures as well as hands-on labs to practice and apply what you learn. You will have no-charge access to a virtual Linux server that you can access through your web browser, so you don't need to download and install anything to complete the labs. You’ll end this course with a final project as well as a final exam. In the final project you will demonstrate your knowledge of course concepts by performing your own Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) process and create a scheduled backup script. This course is ideal for data engineers, data scientists, software developers, and cloud practitioners who want to get familiar with frequently used commands on Linux, MacOS and other Unix-like operating systems as well as get started with creating shell scripts....

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awesome overall but some the labs were questionable. Sometimes the code hints didn’t work. I had to spend a lot of time on Linux laptop using Man pages to figure things out.

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Covers the most basic Linux command lines and shell scripting commands. I would prefer adding some videos explaining conditional statements, loops...etc.

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By Marco C

Nov 20, 2022

Very useful for getting a first approach of common linux commands and avoid feeling intimidated about using tools from an OS different than Windows or Mac. More practice in real life is needed after this course to master all the commands, but you will surely learn how to learn more about the commands.

By Brittney C

Apr 19, 2024

While there was some missing info in the peer review that I knew how to get around from writing bash scripts and using cron before, overall this course was great. I learned a lot of new info so I should be able to write even better bash scripts and move around linux more efficiently.

By Sirawit B

Mar 29, 2022

the course feature a great shell scripting lesson but the test/assignment contain some ambiguous instruction that could lead to the reduction of your score during the test. Anyway, it does not matter that much because ,in the end you will learn about the commands.

By NGUYỄN Q T

Mar 21, 2022

The files in "important-documents.zip" of the Final Project has expired modified-date. Please update the file so that the conditional for loop could store files in the array.

Bu in overall, the course is well explained. Lab works are good. Pretty enjoy the labs.

By ibnu f

Sep 26, 2023

as a beginner who doesn't have any IT background, this course help me to getting basic knowledge in bash scripting. This course is easy to understand, and will you give practical session to help you deepen the course material.

By Ahmed S A H

Jul 12, 2023

this course is awesome good every things has explained in details but the problem with me that not lab is working and even the final project also not working

so I had to enroll from this course thanks coursera

By CARLOS M A P

Feb 28, 2024

The contents are great! It's a challenging course. My only concern is the real-world usability for data management / engineering since Linux capabilities are not very powerful at handling data.

By ANDERSON P C

Nov 23, 2022

Excellent course to dive into Linux shell, however the final project has an issue related to the name of one specific variable which could lead to peer's appreciation error while evaluating it.

By Justino C

Jun 21, 2022

Great course, but I think it has room for improvement when it comes to the command options... not very well specified and you get tested on them.

Overall great intro course, I'm glad I took it!

By Dmitrii G

Mar 23, 2023

All is good except final peer review task.

You have to make a lot of screenshots and your peers sometimes put 0 for correct answer for example when you write 86400 instead of 60*60*24

By Kevin G

Sep 22, 2023

Some areas of the course were at a good pace, and then nearing the command section I felt there was lacking in some of the explanation of commands and it felt quickly skimmed over.

By Tadd T

Aug 12, 2023

awesome overall but some the labs were questionable. Sometimes the code hints didn’t work. I had to spend a lot of time on Linux laptop using Man pages to figure things out.

By Rony G

Sep 1, 2024

The course starts with basics about linux, but than goes to super rapid pace when moving to bash scripting. Overall a very good course for starting with linux

By Berk T

Jun 20, 2024

Challenging but quite rewarding course. Learned a lot of skills, practices are harder than the final exam :D Please do not skip those practices!

By Syed T A

Apr 10, 2023

Great introduction to Linux shell scripting. Some instructions in the final project were inconsistent with expected output. But not a big deal.

By Lori R

Feb 13, 2023

The course was very informative; however, the final project was quite difficult for me to follow/understand what was being asked to do.

By prahal m

Mar 14, 2023

from basics to advance complete coverage but the pace was very fast and very shallow but explanation was good and informative

By Patricio A Q G

Sep 28, 2023

Excelente curso, los laboratorios fueron una gran ayuda aprendi mucho y estoy muy agradecido.

By Junaid A

Jan 23, 2023

overall very good course my suggestion is a lot of many material can be add for this course

By Aminat A

Apr 10, 2023

The peer grading is terrible. Getting answers marked wrong even though they were correct.

By Ricus E

Mar 24, 2024

Good course, well laid out and the quizzes / assignments built on top of each other.

By Kaveh S

Jul 27, 2022

The course is well-structured, but I believe is not sufficient for the DevOps role

By Sean H

Dec 13, 2022

The robot voice of the lessons makes it boring. The environments are nice to use.

By Анна

Feb 27, 2023

Some things weren't covered in the theory section but were in the final project.

By Mükremin A

Nov 15, 2022

conditions, loops and other important topics could also be explained. Thanks.