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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....

Top reviews

Apr 8, 2024

Very helpful for the practical, common commands introduced in this course. The real-world weather project is quite challenging for new learners like me, but I did learn a lot!

May 27, 2023

The course elements were very easy and in more detail. This course taught me so many essential and advanced commands of Linux in a very short time with hands-on practice.

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By Rebecca K

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Jan 4, 2023

Some instructions are not clear, learning of commands are very basic (not done in depth), couple of errors in system. Other than that, I learned a new language and I would recommend the course.

By Kelvin S A

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Apr 21, 2022

The course is very basic. It should cover conditional operators, repetition structure and special variables like $#, $? and so on.

By Nate R

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Feb 18, 2022

overly simple, shouldnt even be a full "course". its a halfassed youtube video with a quiz

By Zachary W

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Apr 22, 2023

Another IBM course with TikTok voice lectures.

By Wiam L

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Jan 10, 2024

I HAVE COMPLETED THE COURSE BUT I DIDN'T RECEIVE THE CERTIFICATE

By Tim Z

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Nov 20, 2021

Awesome guided introduction into the Linux world of shell scripting. Only caveat for me was that the course was a bit too shallow. Wish that it would have at least touched upon concepts, such as case statements, conditions, exit statutes and return codes and loops. Overall gained a thourough understanding of the basics and the hands-on labs helped to apply and test this knowledge.

By Sheikh S K

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Feb 19, 2022

I was always afraid of forgetting shell scripting due to which I feared & I never tried to learn them. But after doing this course I feel very confident & it's only possible because of the well organised course content and even more because of the VIRTUAL LABS. The labs do help a lot. If you really want to learn BASH SCRIPTING, do the exercises sincerely.

By Sina S S

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Mar 28, 2022

It is a well-paced course which starts from teaching the basics and builds up to some advanced subjects. It is to the point and the final assignment is really good.

By Zofia G

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Jun 21, 2023

Enjoyed a lot, learn a lot about Linux, and I enjoyed the labs very much, thank you for your time and energy investing in this course. It was very much worth it.

By Domingo l

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Apr 26, 2022

Excellent course, very informative and educational. Very clear and understandable documentation. the lab. was very excellent and very clear to implement it.

By Gina R L

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Dec 22, 2021

Is a very good introduction to Linux commands and scripting, with tools to practice incorporated so you don't need a virtual machine with linux

By Santiago B V

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Oct 28, 2021

Muy completo a nivel practico y teórico.

By Peter D

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Aug 8, 2021

Excellent Linux short courses.

By Muhammad Q B Y

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Dec 23, 2021

Great Learning Experience

By Saifulla .

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Aug 9, 2021

Good Experience.

By Pranshula P

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Nov 4, 2021

Good course

By Julio A L H

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Aug 22, 2021

Very nice!

By Adriano B

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Nov 30, 2021

Muito bom

By Belinda W

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Aug 11, 2021

Loved it!

By dumebi j

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Oct 5, 2021

good

By Siddhika T

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Sep 13, 2021

GOOD

By Maria B

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May 10, 2022

Unfortunately I've found some mistakes in the final test.

By jonnalagadda v s

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Aug 26, 2021

very easy to understand for beginners. it is useful

By shruti s 1

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Sep 18, 2021

good

By Hsieh C

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Nov 22, 2023

Conclusion, great practice with hands-on projects, poor lecture quality. Only the hands-on projects are worth spending time. Course videos were made with text-to-speech tools, make it feels like reading wikipedia directly but in video formats.