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CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

By : Philip Inshanally
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CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

By: Philip Inshanally

Overview of this book

The Linux+ certification provides a broad awareness of Linux operating systems, while giving professionals an upper hand in the IT industry. With this certification, you’ll be equipped with the all-important knowledge of installation, operation, administration, and troubleshooting services. This CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide will give you an overview of the system architecture. You’ll understand how to install and uninstall Linux distributions, followed by working with various package managers. You’ll then move on to manipulating files and processes at the command-line interface (CLI) and creating, monitoring, killing, restarting, and modifying processes. As you progress, you’ll be equipped to work with display managers and learn how you can create, modify, and remove user accounts and groups, as well as understand how to automate tasks. The last set of chapters will help you configure dates and set up local and remote system logging. In addition to this, you’ll explore different internet protocols, and delve into network configuration, security administration, Shell scripting, and SQL management. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have got to grips with all the modules you need to study for the LX0-103 and LX0-104 certification exams, but you’ll also be able to test your understanding with practice questions and mock exams.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Mock Exam - 1
20
Mock Exam - 2

Performing File Management

In the previous chapter, we dealt with package management within the Red Hat world. Particularly, we covered the yum, dnf, rpm, and yumex utilities.

In this chapter, our focus will shift toward file management. We will look at ways to work in the shell. We will work on creating, modifying, and removing files. Additionally, we will work with directories, illustrating how to create, move, and remove a directory. Next, we will touch upon performing searches for files and directories. Finally, we will cover pipes and redirects.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Viewing and moving files and directories in the CLI
  • Creating, copying, moving, renaming, and removing files
  • Creating and removing directories
  • Finding files and directories
  • Pipes and redirects