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Chapter 4: Linux Advanced Commands

Mitranno, basic commands let you move around. Advanced commands let you search logs, automate tasks, manage services, inspect networks and disks — the daily work of a cloud engineer. In real jobs, nobody opens a 2 GB log file in nano; we use grep, awk and pipes. Chala, let's learn the tools that make you look like a pro.

Concepts in this chapter

  1. 4.1Searching text: grep
  2. 4.2Finding files: find
  3. 4.3Text processing: awk and sed
  4. 4.4Pipes and redirection
  5. 4.5Archiving and compression: tar, gzip, zip
  6. 4.6Services: service, systemctl and journalctl
  7. 4.7Networking commands
  8. 4.8Disk and storage commands
  9. 4.9Scheduling tasks: cron
  10. 4.10Environment variables
  11. 4.11Remote access: ssh and scp
  12. 4.12Monitoring: top and htop
  13. 4.13Basic shell scripting

Review and practice

  1. ★Common Mistakes I See Students Make
  2. ★Interview Questions
  3. ★Practice Questions and Lab Exercises