Amity School of Engineering & Technology

Linux for Devices

CSE438
Dr. Vibha Nehra
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Amity University Uttar Pradesh
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Outline
1. Administrivia
2. Substance
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Administrivia
 Class web page: Amizone LMS URL
 All assignments, handouts, lecture notes on-line
 Textbook:
 Linux Bible, The comprehensive Tutorial Resource, 8th
Edition
 Linux: The Complete Reference, Sixth Edition
 Goal is to make lecture slides the primary reference
 Almost everything I talk about will be on slides
 Please download slides from LMS
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Assignment Requirements
 Do not copy other student’s solutions. Your marks will be zero if
you do this.
 You must submit your assignments in Google Classroom
 Ask me for deadline extension if you run into trouble
 Be sure to tell me: How much have you done? How much is left? When
can you finish by?
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Syllabus
 Syllabus_Linux for Devices_CSE438.docx

Course Goals
 Introduce you to basics of Linux.
 Explores the basic characteristics of Linux Networking.
 Teach you to learn Linux Shell, File Structure and Network
Administration Services.
 Makes you understand various Linux security techniques.
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Outline
1. Administrivia
2. Substance
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Module1: Linux Basics

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Learning Objective
 To understand how Linux was developed and which are the features that make
it popular as compared to other operating systems
 To give the abstract description of the overall architecture of Linux
 To present various designs of the kernel and among them which design is
adopted for Linux kernel development
 To present the design and importance of each directory/file in the Linux file
system
 To present the idea that how a communicator take responsibility to send only
correct instruction to the master component of O/S so that master can do more
productive work
 To impart the most useful Linux commands
 Understand the basics of Linux
 Application of Linux in Industry usage
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Learning Objective
 Can understand the popularity of Linux and various distribution of it that can
be used for personal and commercial purposes without any cost
 Understand the essential components of Linux system architecture
 Able to distinguish the design of Linux kernel with non-Linux O/S kernel
 Able to understand the importance of file system
 Able to understand that to increase the throughput of the system correctness
of the user instruction must be checked by the mediator before execution
 Comfortable to use commands in any organization where Linux o/s is
primarily used
 Analyze the category of different type of users
 Able to assign appropriate access permission to users working in same system
 Perform the basic operations for Linux
 Analyse the potential of Linux in Industry
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Topics
 Introduction to Linux
 File System of the Linux
 General usage of Linux kernel & basic commands
 Linux users and group
 Permissions for file
 Directory and users
 Searching a file & directory
 Zipping and Unzipping concepts
 Linux for the Industry 4.0 Era
 OPENIL and its advantages
 Features of OPENIL
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Why Linux
 A Linux Distribution has thousands of dollars worth of software
for no cost.
 Linux is a complete operating system:
 Stable - the crash of an application is much less likely to
bring down the OS under Linux.
 Reliable - Linux servers are often up for hundreds of days
compared with the regular reboots required with a Windows
system.
 Extremely powerful
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Why Linux (continued)

 Excellent networking facilities
 Ideal environment to run servers such as a web server, or an ftp
server
 A wide variety of commercial software is available if not satisfied
by the free software
 Easily upgradeable
 Supports multiple processors
 True multi-tasking, multi-user OS
 An excellent window system called X, the equivalent of Windows
but much more flexible
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Before Linux
 In 80’s, Microsoft’s DOS was the dominated OS for PC
 single-user, single-process system
 Apple MAC is better, but expensive
 UNIX is much better, but much expensive.
 Only for minicomputer for commercial applications
 People was looking for a UNIX based system, which is
cheaper and can run on PC
 Both DOS, MAC and UNIX are proprietary, i.e., the
source code of their kernel is protected
 No modification is possible without paying high
license fees
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GNU Project
 Established in 1984 by Richard Stallman, who believes that
software should be free from restrictions against copying or
modification in order to make better and efficient computer
programs
 GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix”
 Aim at developing a complete Unix-like operating system
which is free for copying and modification
 Companies make their money by maintaining and distributing
the software, e.g. optimally packaging the software with
different tools (Redhat, Slackware, Mandrake, SuSE, etc)
 Stallman built the first free GNU C Compiler in 1991.
 But still, an OS was yet to be developed
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Beginning of Linux
 A famous professor Andrew Tanenbaum developed Minix, a
simplified version of UNIX that runs on PC
 Minix is for class teaching only. No intention for commercial
use
 In Sept 1991, Linus Torvalds, a second year student of
Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, developed the
preliminary kernel of Linux, known as Linux version 0.0.1
 It was put to the Internet and received enormous response
from worldwide software developers
 By December came version 0.10. Still Linux
was little more than in skeletal form.
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Confrontation and
Development
 Message from Professor Andrew Tanenbaum
 " I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is
a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my
student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)"
(Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds)
 "Linux is obsolete".
 (Remark made by Andrew Tanenbaum)
 But work went on. Soon more than a hundred people joined the Linux
camp. Then thousands. Then hundreds of thousands
 It was licensed under GNU General Public License, thus ensuring that the
source codes will be free for all to copy, study and to change.
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Linux
 Created by Linus Torvalds in 1991
 Includes system utilities & libraries from the GNU Project
 Open Source Hardware:
 Free
 Stable
 Easily fixed if bugs appear

 Why did Linux become popular??

 Low-cost alternative in sagging economy
 Fear of Microsoft gaining a stranglehold on corporate
 Intel loosened its relationship with Microsoft
 IBM made an effort to be Linux-compatible
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Linux Today
 Linux has been used for many computing platforms
 PC, PDA, Supercomputer,…
 Current kernel version 2.6.13
 Not only character user interface but graphical user interface,
thanks to the X-Window technology
 Commercial vendors moved in Linux itself to provide freely
distributed code. They make their money by compiling up
various software and gathering them in a distributable format
 Red Hat, Slackware, etc
 Chinese distribution of Linux also appeared in Taiwan and
China - CLE, Red Flag Linux
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Linux Has Many Distributions

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Linux Pros and Cons

 Advantages over Windows
 It's almost free to relatively inexpensive
 Source code is included
 Bugs are fixed quickly and help is readily available through
the vast support in Internet
 Linux is more stable than Windows
 Linux is truly multi-user and multi-tasking
 multiuser: OS that can simultaneously serve a number of
users
 multitasking: OS that can simultaneously execute a number
of programs
 Linux runs on equipment that other operating systems
consider too underpowered, e.g. 386 systems, PDA, etc
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Linux Pros and Cons

 Advantages over Windows
 Isn't as popular as Windows
 No one commercial company is responsible for Linux
 Linux is relatively hard to install, learn and use Linux runs
on equipment that other operating systems consider too
underpowered, e.g. 386 systems, PDA, etc.
 Hence currently, Linux is mainly used in commercial
applications, server implementation
 More than 75% current network servers are developed based
on Linux or Unix systems
– Due to the relatively high reliability
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Linux vs. Unix

 Linux is free, but Unix is not
 Unix is compatible with Linux at the system call level,
meaning most programs written for either Unix or Linux can
be recompiled to run on the other system with a minimum of
work
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Linux vs. Microsoft Windows

 Both offer
 Graphics capabilities
 Networking capabilities
 But Linux networking is excellent
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Linux System Architecture

• Kernel
• The part of an OS where the real work is done
• System call interface
• Comprise a set of functions (often
known as Application Programmer’s Interface API) that can be used
by the applications and library routines to use the services provided by the kernel
• Application User’s Interface
• Interface between the kernel and user
• Allow user to make commands to the system
• Divided into text based and graphical based
• File Management
• Control the creation, removal of files and provide directory maintenance
• For a multiuser system, every user should have its
own right to access files and directories
• Process Management
• For a multitask system, multiple programs can
be executed simultaneously in the system
• When a program starts to execute, it becomes a process
• The same program executing at two different times will become two different
processes
• Kernel manages processes in terms of creating, suspending, and terminating them
• A process is protected from other processes and can communicate with the others
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Linux System Architecture

• Memory management
• Memory in a computer is divided into main memory (RAM) a
nd secondary storage (usually refer to hard disk)
• Memory is small in capacity but fast in speed, and hard disk
is vice versa
• Data that are not currently used should be saved to hard
disk first, while
data that are urgently needed should be retrieved
and stored in RAM
• The mechanism is referred as memory management

• Device drivers
• Interfaces between the kernel and the BIOS
• Different device has different driver

• Kernel
• A core component of Operating System without which
OS can't work
• Kernel is the nervous system of OS
• It controls everything in OS including I/O Management,
Process Management and so on
• It is a bridge between applications and the actual data
processing done at the hardware level
• It acts as an interface between the user applications and the
hardware
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Tasks of kernel
1. Central Processing Unit
The Kernel takes responsibility for deciding at anytime which of
the many running programs should be allocated to the processors

2. Random Access Memory

It is used to store both program instructions and data. Often
multiple programs will want access to memory, frequently
demanding more memory than the computer has available. The
Kernel is responsible for deciding which memory each process
can use and determining what to do when not enough memory is
available.
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Tasks of kernel(Continued..)
3. Input/output Devices
The Kernel allocates requests from applications to perform I/O to an
appropriate device and provides convenient methods for using the
device
4. Memory Management
The Kernel has full access to the system's memory and must allow
processes to safely access this memory as they require it
5.Device Management
A Kernel must maintain a list of available devices. This list may be
known in advance configured by the user or detected by the
operating system at run time (normally called plug and play)
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Tasks of kernel (Continued..)

 Scheduling of Process (Dispatching)
 Interprocess Communication
 Process Synchronization
 Context Switching
 Manipulation of Process Control Blocks
 Interrupt Handling
 Process Creation and Destruction
 Process Suspension and Resumption
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Types of Kernel
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Monolithic Kernel
• Run in Kernel space every basic system services like
• process and memory management,
• interrupt handling and I/O Communication,
• file system etc in Kernel space

• Used by Unix, Linux like Operating systems

• Since there is less software involved, it is faster

• Every component of the Operating system is contained in the kernel and can
directly communicate with each other simply by using function calls.
• The Kernel typically executes with unrestricted access to the computer system

• This approach provides rich and powerful hardware access

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Monolithic Kernel
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Pros of Monolithic Kernel

• Smaller in source and compiled forms
• Less code generally means fewer bugs and security problems is
also less
• System calls are used to do operations in monolithic kernel
• Execution is fast
• It has all the things in kernel itself so we don't need any extra
mechanism for handling of I/O and process at the time of
application making
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Cons of Monolithic Kernel

• Coding in kernel space is hard, since you cannot use common
libraries
• Debugging is harder, rebooting the computer is often needed
• Bugs in one part of kernel produce strong side effects
• Kernels often become very huge and difficult to maintain
• Not portable one. Monolithic kernels must be rewritten for each
new architecture that the OS is to be used on.
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Micro Kernel
• The kernel provides basic functionality that allows the execution of
servers and separate programs
• The Kernel is broken into separate processes known as server
• Some of the servers run in user space and some in kernel space
• All servers are kept separate and run in different address spaces
• The communication in microkernels is done via message passing
• The servers communicate through Interprocess
Communication(IPC)
• Servers invoke "services" from each other by sending messages
• It is also possible to dynamically switch among operating systems
and to have more than one active simultaneously
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Micro Kernel
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Advantages of Micro Kernel

• Easier to maintain than Monolithic Kernel
• Crash resistant (If one server fails, other servers can still work
efficiently)
• Portable
• Smaller in size
• Contains smaller amount of code. It increases stability and
security.
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Key Comparisons
Basis for Comparison Micro Kernel Monolithic Kernel

Size Smaller in size Larger than microkernel

Execution Slow Fast
Extendible Easy to extend Hard to extend
Security If a service crashes, it If a service crashes, the
does effects on working whole system crashes in
on the microkernel monolithic kernel

Code To write a microkernel To write a monolithic

more code is required kernel less code is
required
Example QNX, Symbian, Linux, BSDs(FreeBSD,
L4Linux etc. OpenBSD, NetBSD)etc.
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Topics
 Introduction to Linux
 File System of the Linux
 General usage of Linux kernel & basic commands
 Linux users and group
 Permissions for file
 Directory and users
 Searching a file & directory
 Zipping and Unzipping concepts
 Linux for the Industry 4.0 Era
 OPENIL and its advantages
 Features of OPENIL
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Linux File System Structure

 According to the File System Standard (FSSTND)
proposed in 1994, every LINUX system should contain a
set of standard files and directories
Kernel
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Linux File System Structure

 Root Directory ( / )
 Top of the file system. Similar to \ in DOS
 /bin
 Contain the binary (executable code) of most essential
Kernel
Linux commands, e.g. bash, cat, cp, ln, ls, etc.
 /boot
 Contain all the files needed to boot the Linux system,
including the binary of the Linux kernel. E.g., on Red Hat
Linux 6.1, the kernel is in /boot/vmlinux-2.2.5-15 file
 /dev
 Contain the special files for devices, e.g. fd0, hd0, etc.
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Linux File System Structure

 /etc
 Contain host-specific files and directories, e.g. information
about system configuration
 /etc/passwd
 This file contains login information of users in the
system
 For every user, one line of record is stored in the
following format:
login_name : dummy_or_encrypted_password : user_ID :
group_ID : user_info : home_directory : login_shell
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Linux File System Structure

 E.g. rahul:x:134:105:MohanARahul:/home/rahul:/bin/bash
 rahul : login name
 x : means that it is a dummy password. The encrypted password is stored in
/etc/shadow. This field can also be used to store the actual encrypted
password. In any case, the original (unencrypted) password cannot be seen
by anyone, including the administrator
 134 : a user id given to that user. Range from 0 to 65535.
 0 is assigned to super-user. 1 to 99 are reserved
 105 : a group id given to that user to indicate which group he belongs to.
Range from 0 to 65535. 0 to 99 reserved
 Mohan A Rahul : user info, usually user’s full name
 /home/rahul : home directory of the user
 /bin/bash : the location of the shell the user is using
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Linux File System Structure

 /home
 Contain the home directories of every user in the system,
e.g. dlun, guest, etc
 /lib
 Store all essential libraries for different language
compilers
 /lost+found
 Contain all the files on the system not connected to any
directory.
 System administrator should determine the fate of the files
in this directory
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Linux File System Structure

 /mnt
 Use by system administrator to mount file systems
temporarily by using the mount command
 Before using any devices, they have to be mounted to the
system for registration
 For example, after mounting a CD-ROM, the file system
in it will be mapped to /mnt/cdrom directory
 User can then read and write files in the CD-ROM by
accessing this directory
 Similar to mapping a drive letter to a CD-ROM in
Windows
 Different from the special file in /dev. Special file is only a
place where data of the CD-ROM is transferred or stored.
No file system concept
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Linux File System Structure

 /opt
 Use to install add-on software packages, e.g. star office,
etc.
 /proc
 Contain process and system information
 /root
 Home directory of the user root, usually the administrator
 /sbin
 The directories /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbin contain
system administration tools, utilities and general root only
commands, such as halt, reboot and shutdown
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Linux File System Structure

 /tmp
 Contain temporary files. Usually files in this directory will
be deleted from time to time to avoid the system fills with
temp files
 /usr
 One of the largest sections of the Linux file system
 Contain read-only data that are shared between various
users, e.g. the manual pages needed for the command man.
Stored in /usr/man direcrtory
 /var
 Contain data that keeps on changing as the system is
running. E.g. /var/spool/mail directory keeps the mail of
user
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Topics
 Introduction to Linux
 File System of the Linux
 General usage of Linux kernel & basic commands
 Linux users and group
 Permissions for file
 Directory and users
 Searching a file & directory
 Zipping and Unzipping concepts
 Linux for the Industry 4.0 Era
 OPENIL and its advantages
 Features of OPENIL
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Linux Shell
 Shell interprets the command whoami pwd
ls Bash, Tcsh, Zsh
and request service from kernel
 Similar to DOS but DOS has only one set of interface while
Linux can select different shell Kernel
 – Bourne Again shell (Bash), TC shell (Tcsh), Z shell
(Zsh)
 Different shell has similar but different functionality
 Bash is the default for Linux
 Graphical user interface of Linux is in fact an application
program work on the shell
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Example Linux Shell

Commands
 Frequently used commands available in most shells:
 ls : to show (list) the names of the file in the current
directory
 cd : change directory,
– e.g. cd / change to the root directory
cd .. change to the parent of that directory
 cp : copy one file to another
– e.g. cp abc.txt xyz.txt
copy abc.txt to xyz.txt
 rm : remove a file
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Example Linux Shell

Commands
 man : ask for the manual (or help) of a command
– e.g. man cd ask for the manual of the command
Kernel cd
 pwd : show the name of the present working directory
 cat : to show the content of a text file
– e.g. cat abc.txt show the content of abc.txt
 whoami : to show the username of the current user

More Linux/Unix commands

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Topics
 Introduction to Linux
 File System of the Linux
 General usage of Linux kernel & basic commands
 Linux users and group
 Permissions for file
 Directory and users
 Searching a file & directory
 Zipping and Unzipping concepts
 Linux for the Industry 4.0 Era
 OPENIL and its advantages
 Features of OPENIL
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Linux User Login

 Linux is a multiuser OS
 Allow multiple users to use the resource of a computer at the
same time
 Every user needs to login the system with the password
provided to identify their right in using the resource
 Require for both client-server based system or desktop
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Linux User Interface

 Traditional Linux (Unix also) uses command- driven
interface (or text-based interface)
 User need to type lines of command to instruct the
computer to work, similar to DOS
 Advantage: fast in speed. Very few resource is
required for its implementation
 Disadvantages: user needs to type, hence can easily
make error. Besides, user needs to memorize all
commands
 Suitable for expert users and for the systems that
interaction with user is not frequent, such as servers
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Linux User Interface

 By adopting the X-Window technology, graphical user interface (GUI) is
available for Linux:
 Uses pointing devices (e.g. mouse) to control the system, similar to
Microsoft’s Windows
 Provide menu-driven and/or icon-driven interfaces
 menu-driven: user is provided with a menu of choices. Each
choice refers to a particular task
 icon-driven: tasks are represented by pictures (icon) and shown to
user. Click on an icon invokes one task
 Advantages: No need to memorize commands.
 Always select task from menus or icons
 Disadvantages: Slow and require certain resource for its
implementation
 Suitable for general users and systems, such as PC
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Linux User Interface

 A typical Linux GUI based on

GNOME
 Similar to Microsoft’s Windows,
however, different window systems can
be chosen (e.g. GNOME, KDE, etc)
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Topics
 Introduction to Linux
 File System of the Linux
 General usage of Linux kernel & basic commands
 Linux users and group
 Permissions for file
 Directory and users
 Searching a file & directory
 Zipping and Unzipping concepts
 Linux for the Industry 4.0 Era
 OPENIL and its advantages
 Features of OPENIL
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File Management
 In Linux, file is defined as simply the thing that deals with a
sequence of bytes
 Hence everything are files
– An ordinary file is a file; a directory isKernel
also file; a
network card, a hard disk, any device are also files since
they deal with a sequence of bytes
 Linux supports five types of files
 simple/ordinary file (text file, c++ file, etc)
 directory
 symbolic (soft) link
 special file (device)
 named pipe (FIFO)
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Example Linux File

Kernel

Names in blue are directories, indicated by a

letter d at the beginning of the line
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Linux File
 Symbolic (soft) link
 Not a real file, just a link to another file
 Allow giving another name to a file without actually
duplicates it – hence save memory space
Kernel
 Special file (device)
 Each hardware device, e.g. keyboard, hard disk, CD-ROM,
etc is associated with at least one file
 Usually stored in /dev directory
 Applications can read and write any devices by reading
and writing their associated file – hence the access method
is known as device independent
 Divide into two types: character special files, e.g.
keyboard, and block special files, e.g. disk
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Linux File

Kernel
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Linux File

Kernel
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Linux File Access Privilege

 Linux is a multiuser system, the files of all users are stored
in a single file structure
 Mechanism is required to restrict one user to access the files
of another user, if he is not supposed to
 User can impose access permission to each file to restrict its
access
 The term “access permission” refers to
 read permission
 write permission
 execute permission
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Linux File Access Privilege

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Linux File Access Privilege

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Linux File Access Privilege

 Access permission can also be assigned to a directory
 Directory is also a file that contains the attributes of the files
inside it.
 If read permission is not given to a directory
 cannot show the structure of this directory
 e.g. cannot use ls
 If write permission is not given to a directory
 cannot modify anything of the directory structure
 e.g. cannot copy a file into this directory since it will
modify the directory structure by adding one more file
 If execute permission is not given to a directory
 nearly nothing can be done with this directory, even cd
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Linux File Access Privilege

 The access permission of a file or directory can be changed
by using the command

chmod xyz filename/directory name

 xyz refers 3 digit in octal form
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Linux File Access Privilege

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Quiz-II
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Topics
 Introduction to Linux
 File System of the Linux
 General usage of Linux kernel & basic commands
 Linux users and group
 Permissions for file
 Directory and users
 Searching a file & directory
 Zipping and Unzipping concepts
 Linux for the Industry 4.0 Era
 OPENIL and its advantages
 Features of OPENIL
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Searching for Binary Files

$ which <binary file>
• If you are able to run a binary file and want to know where does this binary
exist
 $ which shutdown

• Note that this command searches for the binary using the $PATH
environment variable
• This means if the $PATH does not have the folder of the binary,
which will not be able to find it
• In other words, if you can not run the command, which will
not be able to locate it
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Searching for Binary Files

$ locate <filename>
$ locate <part of the path or filename>
• The locate command searches for the required file based on a pre- prepared
database of all files in the system along with their full path
• When performing a search using locate command, the database is searched for
the passed string
• Hence, you can search based on any string, even if it is only a part of the file
path
• $ locate in/zi
• This would result in,
• /usr/bin/zip
• /usr/bin/zipcloak
• /usr/bin/zipsplit
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Database for “locate”

• The database used by the locate command is created by the
program updatedb
• This program runs in a cron job that periodically (such as
once daily) updates the database
• Accordingly the database may have incorrect or incomplete info,
• Newly created files may not be in the database for sometime
• Recently deleted files may still be in the database
• Recently moved files, may be in the database using its old
location
• This means that these changes will be missed in the search
• If you want to update the index manually,
• $ sudo updatedb
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Limitation of “locate”
Command
• The locate command is a very useful command because:
• It is very simple
• You can search for a file based on its name, part of its name, part of its path,
…etc
• It is very fast command (because it uses a pre-prepared database)
• However, it comes with some limitations,
• It can only search based on file name (or path name)
• It may not find new files
• It may result in wrong results since it does not use the current tree in its
search (instead it uses an old snapshot of the tree)
• The locate command is useful for searching for system files or traditional
Linux files but can not be used in a lot of other scenarios
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A Smarter Search (find

Command)
• The find is a very rich command that can search on files using different search
filters, for example,
• Search for a file based on its name
• Search for a file based on its size
• Search for a file based on its last modification date
• Search for a file based on its type (normal file, directory, symbolic link, ….)
• Search for a file based on other criteria
• A combination of all of those search criteria
• Limit the search scope to a certain directory (and its subdirectories)
• Skip Some subdirectories from the search scope
• This command also allows for performing an action on all the files that match
the search criteria
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Selecting the Search Scope

• The find command perform its search within the given scope
• For example:
• $ find ~
• This will list all files in the home directory and its subdirectories
• $ find ~ | wc -l
• Count files under my home directory
• $ find /
• List all files in the system starting from the root directory
• You may need to run this command with sudo to be able to search all
files
• $ find /bin /sbin /usr/bin
• List all files in those 3 directories (scope can contain multiple
directories)
• $ find ~/Documents | grep “.pdf”
• Find all pdf files under the Documents folder
• $ find . > file-list.txt
• Store a list of files under the current directory in the specified file
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Adding Filters to the Search

• So far, the find command finds all the files in the specified
path, and lists them
• To limit the search to some files, we had to pipe the result to the
grep command
• This gives a similar effect to the locate command (except that it
is up to date)
• But we need more search options than searching by
the filename or the path
• To do that, we need to add Search Filters to the find command
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Searching by File Type

$ find <scope> -type <type>
• To generate a list of directories in the user home directory
$ find ~ -type d
• To generate a list of files only in the user home directory
$ find ~ -type f
• To generate a list for all symbolic links in the system,
$ find / -type l
• For Device files
$ find / -type c (character devices)
$ find / -type b (block device)
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Searching by File Name

$ find <scope> -name <file name pattern>
$ find <scope> -iname <file name pattern>

• To search for a file by its name

• $ find ~ -name my-file.txt
• You can use a pattern for the file name (or even a regular
expression)
• $ find ~ -name “*.xml”
• $ find ~ -name \*\.xml
• For case insensitive search,
• $ find / -iname “*.html”
• $ find / -iname \*\.html
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Searching by File Size

$ find <scope> -size <file Size filter>
You can search by file size
 $ find ~ -size +1M
 • + means bigger than
• - means smaller than
• Neither means, exactly this size
• M means Megabyte
• G means Gigabyte
• K means Kilobyte
• w means words (2 bytes)
• c means characters (1 byte)
• b means blocks (512 byte), this is the default, if no unit is
passed
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And Much More

• The find command is a very rich command, and its use is not
limited to the described scenarios
• Filters can be also using date of creation, date of modification,
owning user, owning group, permissions, etc …
• Examples:
• $ find ~ -perm 777
• $ find . -user root
• $ sudo find / -mtime -50
• $ sudo find / -atime
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Mixing Search Criteria

• You can use multiple search filters to get a more sophisticated
search criteria as follows,
• To have multiple conditions “ANDed” together, which means
a match happens only if all the conditions are satisfied

• To have multiple conditions “ORed” together, which means a

match happens if any of the conditions is satisfied
• You can have any of the conditions reversed
• You can have a more complicated search expressions using
parentheses
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Using Multiple “ANDed” Filters

• You can have “ANDed” filters, in which a file match has to
satisfy all the criteria
• Just put the filters back to back
• $ find ~ -type f -name “*.jpg” -size +10M
• Use ‘-a’
• $ find ~ -name ‘*.jpg’ -a -size +10M
• Use ‘-and’
• $ find ~ -name ‘*.jpg’ -and -size +10M
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Using Multiple “ORed”

Conditions
• You can have “ORed” filters, in which a file match needs to
satisfy any one of the filters
• Use ‘-o’
– $ find ~ -name ‘*.jpg’ -o -size +10M
• Use ‘-or’
– $ find ~ -name ‘*.jpg’ -or -size +10M
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Inverting Conditions
 You can have one of the filters inverted in the search criteria
• Using “!”
– $ find ~ \! -name “*.pdf”
• Using “-not”
– $ find ~ -not -name “*.pdf”
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Mix & Match

 You can mix and match any of the filters described so far to
get a more sophisticated filter expression
• The use of parentheses “( )” becomes necessary as the
expression gets more complicated
• Keep in mind that the parentheses need to be escaped
• Use \( expression \)
• Example:
• $ find ~ \( -name tmp -o -name \*.txt \)
• $ find ~ \( -name tmp -o \( -not -user root\) \)
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Find & Perform Action

• The default action for the find command is to print the list of
files matching the search criteria (file name with full path)
• However, you can set another action to apply on those files that
meet the search criteria
• Print the names with path (Default action)
– $ find ~ -type d -print
• Delete the files
– $ find ~ -name “*.pdf” -delete
• Perform a detailed list of the files
– $ find ~ -size +10M -ls
• Quit the search on the first match. This can be used if the purpose of the search
is to just find if any file meets this criteria
– $ find ~ -size +100M -quit
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Skipping Files
(The -prune Action)
• The find command performs its search recursively in all sub-
directories
• In case we need to skip some search results, we can use a
search filter with the -prune action with the other search filters
• Example:
• $ find ~ -type l -prune -o -name "*.txt" -print
• $ find . -path ./misc -prune -o -name '*.txt' -print
• $ find . -type d \( -path dir1 -o -path dir2 -o -path dir3 \) -
prune -o -print
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Quiz-III
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Topics
 Introduction to Linux
 File System of the Linux
 General usage of Linux kernel & basic commands
 Linux users and group
 Permissions for file
 Directory and users
 Searching a file & directory
 Zipping and Unzipping concepts
 Linux for the Industry 4.0 Era
 OPENIL and its advantages
 Features of OPENIL
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ZIP command
 ZIP is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix.
 Each file is stored in single .zip {.zip-filename} file with the
extension .zip.
 The zip program puts one or more compressed files into a
single zip archive, along with information about the files (name,
path, date, time of last modification, protection, and check
information to verify file integrity). An entire directory structure
can be packed into a zip archive with a single command.
 Compression ratios of 2:1 to 3:1 are common for text files.
 zip has one compression method (deflation) and can also store files
without compression.
 zip automatically chooses the better of the two for each file to be
compressed.
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 Syntax
ZIP Command
 zip [options] zipfile files_list
 Extracting from .zip
 Unzip <filename.zip>
 Possibilities:
1. -d removes files from a zip archieve
Zip –d <filename.zip> <file.txt>
2. -u updates a file in zip archieve
Zip –u <filename.zip> <file.txt>
3. -m deletes original files after zipping
Zip –m <filename.zip> file.txt
4. -r recursively zips files in a directory
Zip –r <filename.zip> <directory_name>
5. -v verbose mode or prints diagnostic information
Zip –v <filename.zip> <file1.txt>
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Gzip/gunzip Command
 Another popular compression algorithm that allows to reduce the size of a
file and keep original file mode, ownership and timestamp.
 .gz file format and uses gzip utility to compress and decompress files
 By default, gzip keeps the original file name and
timestamp in the compressed file
 Syntax:
 gzip <test.txt>
 Shall create a <test.txt.gz> and delete the original file
 For compress multiple files or directory into one file, first you need to
create a Tar archive and then compress the .tar file with Gzip. A file
that ends in .tar.gz or .tgz is a Tar archive compressed with Gzip.
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Gzip/gunzip Command​
 Gunzip synopsis
 gunzip [ -acfhlLnNrtvV ] [-S suffix] [ name ... ]
 gunzip also recognizes the special extensions .tgz and .taz as shorthands
for .tar.gz and .tar.Z respectively.
 Possibilities:
1. -k allows to keep original file
Gzip –k <filename>
Or –c
Gzip –c <filename> > filename.gz
2. -v prints the percentage reduction and name of files processed
Gzip –v <filename>
3. Compress multiple files
Gzip <file1> <file2> <file3>
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gzip OPTIONS
• -f –force
 Force compression or decompression even if the file has
multiple links or the corresponding file already exists
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gzip OPTIONS
• -l –list
 For each compressed file, list the following fields:
 compressed size: size of the compressed file
 uncompressed size: size of the uncompressed file
 ratio: compression ratio (0.0% if unknown)
 uncompressed_name: name of the uncompressed file
•-n --no-name
– When compressing, do not save the original file name and
time stamp by default.
– When decompressing, do not restore the original file name if
present (remove only the gzip suffix from the compressed file
name) and do not restore the original time stamp if present.
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gzip OPTIONS
• change the compression level
• -# --fast –best
– Regulate the speed of compression using the specified digit #
• -1 or --fast
 indicates the fastest compression method, less compression
• -9 or --best
 indicates the slowest compression method
 best compression
• The default compression level is-6
• That is, biased towards high compression
– Gzip –9 <filename>
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gzip decompression
 Compressed files can be restored to their original form using:
– gzip -dor
– gunzip or
– Zcat
– Gzip –d <filename.gz>
 gunzip can currently decompress files created by gzip, zip,
compress, compress -H or pack.
– The detection of the input format is automatic.
 gzip and gunzip can also compress or decompress data from
standard input and output
– ls -laR $HOME | gzip > filelist.gz
– Or by using –c option
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Linux Command bzip2

 bzip2, bunzip2
 a block-sorting file compressor, v1.0.2
 bzcat
 decompresses files to stdout
 bzip2recover
 recovers data from damaged bzip2 files
 on the average about 10-20% better than gzip
– at the expense of longer compression times
 Output with .bz2 filename extension
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bzip2: Synopsis
bzip2 [ -cdfkqstvzVL123456789 ] [ filenames ... ]
bunzip2 [ -fkvsVL ] [ filenames ... ]
bzcat [ -s ] [ filenames ... ]
bzip2recover filename
 Each file is replaced by a compressed version of itself, with
the name "original_name.bz2“
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/bzip2-command-in-linux-with-examples/
https://www.javatpoint.com/linux-bzip2-bunzip2
https://www.javatpoint.com/linux-bzcat-bzmore

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tar-command-linux-examples/
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bzip2 OPTIONS
 -c –stdout
– (as in gzip) Compress or decompress to standard output.
• -t –test
– Check integrity of the specified file(s), but don't
decompress them.
 This really performs a trial decompression and throws
away the result.
• -k –keep
– Keep (don't delete) input files during compression or
decompression.
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bzip2 OPTIONS
• -s –small
 Reduce memory usage, for compression, decompression
and testing.
• -1 (or --fast) to -9 (or --best)
 Set the block size to 100 k, 200 k .. 900 k when
compressing.
 Has no effect when decompressing.
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 bzcat
bzip2 decompression
 decompresses files to stdout
• bunzip2
• Cannot use bunzip2 to uncompress files compressed with gzip
and vice versa
• bzip2 -d
 decompresses all specified files.
 Files which were not created by bzip2 will be detected and
ignored
 warning issued.
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bzip2 decompression
filename.bz2 filename filename
filename.bz filename.tar
filename.tbz2 filename.tar
filename.tbz anyothername.out
anyothername
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Linux Command: tar

 tar is a general-purpose archiving utility
 Stands for Tape Archive
 capable of packing many files into a single archive file,
 while retaining information needed to restore the files
fully, such as file permissions and ownership.
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tar options
• -c
 Create a new archive
• -x
 Extract files from an archive
• -t
 List table of contents to an archive
• -r
 append
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tar options
• -u
 Update files
• -d
 Compare files in the archive to those in the file system
• -v
• – print verbose information
• -k
 To keep any existing files when extracting
• B filename
 To specify that the tar file to be read or written is filename.
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Other commands
 Synopsis:
 compress [ -f ] [ -v ] [ -c ] [ -V ] [ -r ] [ -b bits ]
[ name ... ]
 uncompress [ -f ] [ -v ] [ -c ] [ -V ] [ name ... ]
 zip [-aABcdDeEfFghjklLmoqrRSTuvVwXyz!@$] [- b
path] [-n suffixes] [-t mmddyyyy] [-tt mmddyyyy]
[ zipfile [ file1 file2 ...]] [-xi list]
 unzip [-Z] [-cflptuvz[abjnoqsCLMVX$/:]] file[.zip]
[file(s) ...] [-x xfile(s) ...] [-d exdir]
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Short Quiz-III
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Topics
 Introduction to Linux
 File System of the Linux
 General usage of Linux kernel & basic commands
 Linux users and group
 Permissions for file
 Directory and users
 Searching a file & directory
 Zipping and Unzipping concepts
 Linux for the Industry 4.0 Era
 OPENIL and its advantages
 Features of OPENIL
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OPENIL
 It is an open source software platform for industrial automation
 It provides following features:
 Secure:
 Industrial-grade security
 Trusted computing
 Hardened software
 Cryptographic operations
 End to end security
 Real-Time
 OpenIL provides a true real-time software platform
 Real-time Linux kernel, professionally developed, tested and validated
 Deterministic
 OpenIL supports the latest Time-Sensitive Networking technology.
 OpenTSN architecture runs on various hardware.
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OPENIL Advantages
 100% OPEN SOURCE
 Linux distribution specifically developed, tested, and packaged for
industrial systems
 CROSS PLATFORM
 True cross-platform software platform, not limited to specific device or
hardware architecture
 INDUSTRY LEADING EXPERTS
 Technology experts and developers from industry-leading companies are
actively building OpenIL software and solutions
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OPENIL Advantages
 WELL DOCUMENTED AND SUPPORTED
 Development and user manuals are well documented with active
community support.
 FIELD PROVEN
 Every release is rigorously tested in industrial environments on
production systems.
 CONTINUOUSLY EVOLVING
 OpenIL targets broad industrial applications, and is always evolving.

 Go on to the OPENIL website

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Summary
 Linux is an operating system that is built by a community of
software developers around the world and led by its creator,
Linus Torvalds
 It is derived originally from the UNIX operating system, but has
grown beyond UNIX in popularity and power over the years
 Most Linux software projects are protected by one of a set of
licenses that fall under the Open Source Initiative umbrella. The
most prominent of these is the GNU Public License (GPL)
 The GNOME desktop environment has become the default
desktop environment for many Linux systems, including Fedora
and RHEL
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Summary
• To become an expert Linux user, you must be able to use the
shell to type commands
• Commands for moving around the filesystem, copying files,
moving files, and removing files are among the most basic
commands you need to work from the shell
• Use the locate and find commands for finding files and grep for
searching files
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Short Quiz-IV
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Linux Usage in Industry

 Internet
 Major players like Amazon, Google and Netflix all rely on
Linux for delivering services
 Facebook and Twitter each use a Linux variant that has
been tweaked in-house
 Finance
 A number of markets trade using solutions built on a Linux
stack, including the Wall Street, NYSE Euronext, London
Stock Exchange and Chicago Mercantile Exchange
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Linux Usage in Industry

 Insurance
 AIG uses Red Hat and SUSE variants in its architecture
 Health insurer, Cigna, uses Red Hat to build operating
environments on Linux
 Healthcare
 Red Hat skills come in handy for Linux system
administration jobs at healthcare organizations such as
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 Many Debian “pure blends” — subsets of the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution — address the specific needs of
healthcare providers and researchers by packaging the
kernel with drug databases or electronic medical record
systems
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Linux Usage in Industry

 Other Industries
 Government, education and military are other sectors
increasing their reliance on Linux system administration
 Innovative companies using Linux systems to support
advances in autonomous vehicles, wearable devices, and
other “smart” combinations of hardware and software
 Startups and smaller businesses often choose the open-
source OS for their operating servers because so many
distributions are freely available
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Job Positions
 DevOps Engineer  Software Developer
 Java Developer  Linux Engineer
 Software Engineer
 TechOps Engineer
 Systems Administrator
 Systems Engineer
 Senior Java Developer
 Senior Software Engineer  Build release
 Python Developer management Engineer
 Network Engineer
 Software Developer
 Linux Engineering Admin
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Linux Certifications
 Most of the hiring manager are looking to recruit Linux
professionals.
 The emergence of open cloud platforms is creating increasing
demand for Linux professionals who have the right expertise
 Linux-certified professionals always be a better position in the
job market
 Employers are looking for more Linux talent.
 Better salary increments for Linux certified professionals
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Linux Certifications
 Some of the best Linux certification are given below:
 Linux Foundation
 Red Hat Linux SuSE Linux
 Oracle
 Linux Professional Institute (LPIC)
 CompTIA
Check it
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References
 Linux Bible, The comprehensive Tutorial Resource, 8th
Edition
 Linux: The Complete Reference, Sixth Edition
 Linux Programming and Scripting, Video Course NPTEL
 https://www.openil.org/