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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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DG

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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

AM

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It was a great introduction, I would say the labs were so helpful and the final project helped me understand the topics I learned during the course.

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By Kotte a R

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Jan 6, 2024

it is a good learning experience for me

By Thamilmaran K

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Jun 30, 2023

Basic and useful to know few commands.

By BESUNG B A

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Jun 13, 2023

WE GIVE GOD THE GLORY THANK YOU JESUS

By Sabir A S K

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Apr 5, 2022

Great course for absolute beginner

By Jezora

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May 21, 2024

A little confusing at times.

By Hatim Z

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Jan 30, 2022

Good Course for beginners.

By Venkateswara R G

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Dec 6, 2023

Good learning experince

By ephrem d

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Mar 16, 2023

it was a great course.

By chukka A

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Jan 13, 2022

good to understand

By Ram P

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Jun 22, 2022

Very Good Course.

By 2300033318sujith

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Sep 23, 2024

very good course

By Majid A

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Jun 14, 2022

good course

By Rishi R

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Apr 28, 2022

Good course

By Omar R S B

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Apr 25, 2024

Nice

By Deleted A

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Jan 14, 2022

good

By Ahmad F

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Apr 15, 2024

The final assignment plagiarism assessment is not good, because when doing it there is definitely a similar possibility because the final assignment being done is still basic, not something complicated.

By Ashish B

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Jan 7, 2024

Very basic course and did not cover a lot of daily routine work required as part of shell scripting

By SUNASARA A H

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Jan 16, 2024

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By KUMAR G

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Nov 6, 2023

good

By Không P Q H

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Jul 26, 2024

I had a very frustrating experience with the practice project. I was instructed to use grep to extract lines containing temperature in Celsius, and then to use a combination of tr and xargs to separate fields and perform various other manipulations. However, when I examined the output file, the formatting was completely messed up, and the characters were scrambled. I have no idea how to properly parse this data; the only thing I could do was copy-paste the provided solutions to complete the task without understanding the underlying process. Additionally, the course moved at a very fast pace. The content covered in the lectures was significantly different from what was required for the final project. It is highly irresponsible to tell learners to "copy the line below" because a specific topic was not addressed in the course. Furthermore, the inconsistent syntax used across different course materials is extremely confusing for beginners. I struggled to determine the correct syntax to use.

By Anthony H

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Jul 18, 2024

Following instructions were very easy, however, that is not the same as learning the task at hand. Too many videos with not enough quizzes or hands on labs. Also way too many vocabularies/codes with actual uses but not enough, or none at all, practices with them.

By Georgiy R

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Sep 2, 2024

The tasks in the final exam go beyond the course materials, which is a strange approach.

By Costa

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Aug 31, 2024

Boring

By Phil G

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May 9, 2024

i completed the final exam and all course material and passed. i cannot receive nor see my certificate that i earned.

By Liz S

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Feb 1, 2024

En estos momentos, no podré seguir este curso, como hago para dar de baja este curso.