This tutorial series is created using BOSS Linux 3.4.2 on BOSS Linux 3.4.2. BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) GNU/Linux distribution developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) derived from Debian for enhancing the use of Free/ Open Source Software throughout India. BOSS GNU/Linux Version 5.0 is coupled with GNOME Desktop Environment with wide Indian language support & packages, relevant for use in the Government domain. Currently BOSS GNU/Linux Desktop is available in all the Official Indian Languages such as Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Bodo, Urdu, Kashmiri, Maithili, Konkani, Manipuri which will enable the mainly non-English literate users in the country Read more
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Outline: BOSS Linux desktop BOSS Linux Desktop Main Menu System Tray Trash Bin icon (RHS corner) Desktop icon (LHS corner), pen-drive
Outline: Synaptic package manager Synaptic Package Manager How to install packages
Outline: Basic Commands Commands with example Command interpreter Shell Using man Apropos Whatis Using --help option
Outline: General Purpose Utilities in BOSS Linux echo uname who passwd date cal Brief overview on Files and directories pwd ls cat
Outline: File System File Directory File Inode Types of Files Home directory and Current directory Change Directory(cd) mkdir,rmdir
Outline: Working with Regular Files cat rm cp mv cmp wc
Outline: File Attributes chown, chmod, chmod -R, displaying files with ls -l chmod u+, chmod a-w, chmod g+w, chmod -r, chgrp inode, hard link, symbolic link
Outline: Redirection Pipes Input,output and error stream Redirection : > and >> Pipes : |
Outline: Working with Linux Process Process Shell process Process spawning - parent and child process Process attributes - pid, ppid Init Process User proces..
Outline: The Linux Environment Environment variable vs Local variables set command env command SHELL, HOME, PATH, LOGNAME, PS1, PS2 history ! and ~ ali..
Outline: Basics of System Administration Root login-su User management - UID, GID, useradd, usermod, userdel Discs – Du, df
Outline: Simple filters Head tail sort cut paste
Outline: The grep command To see the content of a file To list the entries of a particular stream To ignore cases Lines that do not match the pattern To list ..
Outline: More on grep command Search using grep To match more than one pattern To check a word that has different spelling Character class The use of * To match any one characte..
Outline: The sed command sed To print using sed Line Addressing Context Addressing
Outline: Some more on sed command substitute insert delete
Outline: Basics of awk Awk Preliminaries Selection criteria action Formatted printing - printf Fields and -F option Regular expressions NR - number ..