ONE HOUR SESSIONS

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SESSION 1:  November 26, 2014
	 provided overview of Linux using the pdf: http://johnmeister.com/linux/Overview/LinuxOverview.pdf  
	5 basic commands: man, ls (ls -al, ls -Al), cd, pwd, more 
	discussed .bashrc and showed a few script examples, talked about "script"
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Links:	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Overview/LinuxOverview.pdf    (print out and use as a guide)
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Intro-to-Linux/Special-Characters.pdf (print out and keep as a guide)
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Notes/bashrc-the-dotfile.html  (copy and build your own .basrhc for Cygwin or Linux)
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Scripts/chksys.sh.html  
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Intro-to-Linux/lab-exercise-1.html  (use the commands and the vi editor)
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SESSION 2:  December 3, 2014
	provided link to exercise #1, discussed environment (.bashrc), path, chmod, discussed "SAW" - 
	SAW:"simple always works", History files viewed with sort, uniq, and how to create notes for reference
	ls, sort, grep, uniq, wc -l
	(after using a command, use history recall, add echo and quotes around it, and then append to ~/bin/cool-commands.txt e.g.  
echo "ls *.jpg > ALL.html ; perl -pi -e 's/(.*)/<img src="$1"><BR>$1<HR>/g' ALL.html ; perl -pi -e 's/<img src=""><BR><HR>//g' ALL.html ; cat ALL.html" >> ~/bin/cool-commands.txt
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Links:	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Intro-to-Linux/lab-exercise-1.html  
	   (do this on your system, use "script exercise-1.raw", 
	         when finished type exit, then cat exercise-1.raw | col -b > exercise-1.txt - then edit in vi and save)
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Scripts/chksys.sh.html  (use the vi editor to create and run on your system)
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Scripts/man-page-create-textfiles.sh.txt	(mkdir and cd LAB, then create this script in vi and run)
        http://johnmeister.com/linux/Commands/grep-awk-uniq.html  (the output of the script above is needed to use the commands, YMMV, counts may be different)
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SESSION 3: December 10, 2014
	discuss ssh files, show how to use Gparted, exercise on real world Linux commands, discuss VNC setup
	continue discussion on regularly used commands, e.g. grep, sed, awk, sort, uniq, file permissions and chmod, chown
	exercise #2 - real world examples of commands and file permissions.
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Links:	

	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Overview/
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Intro-to-Linux/Special-Characters.pdf
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Notes/bashrc-the-dotfile.html
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Notes/SSH-setup-and-details.html
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Notes/ssh-authorized-keys-setup-example.html
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Notes/Gparted-for-Setup-or-Rescue.html
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Notes/vnc-setup.html
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Notes/Real-world-Linux-Commands.html
	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Intro-to-Linux/lab-exercise-2.html

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SESSION 4: December 17, 2014
	discuss file systems (fdisk, fsck, dd, rsync,, backup strategies, LVM, file naming conventions, 
	installation of Linux, dual-booting and other practical ways of using Linux).  and some wine... 
	exercise #3 - configuring a system at home - download Linux Mint MATE 17, SuSE 13.2, or Centos 7 and configure apps using apt-get, zypper or yum
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Links: 
 
    http://johnmeister.com/linux/FileSystems/newdisk-setup.txt
    http://johnmeister.com/linux/Notes/USB-live-Gparted-setup.txt
	 http://johnmeister.com/linux/Notes/Setup-SuSE-13.2-select-screens/ALL.html
     http://johnmeister.com/linux/Notes/zypper-installs.html
    http://johnmeister.com/linux/FileSystems/setup-LVM.txt
 	http://johnmeister.com/linux/Commands/rsync-example-man.html RSYNC basics 
    http://johnmeister.com/linux/FileSystems/mount-external-drive-rysnc.txt
    http://johnmeister.com/linux/FileSystems/rsync-disks-cron.sh.txt 
	 Firefox about features showing add-ons, in the URL type:   about:support 
     using wine - some examples and the man page 


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To cover in future sessions:

vi editor, file management, regular expressions, scripting, file systems, user management,
samba (nfs), ssh tunnels, proxies and nats, installation, dual booting, backup, recovery, rsync, tar files,
updates, upgrades and patches, interoperability, web server, mail server, X-windows and desktops,
firewalls, hackers, forensic analysis and log files, printers, networking, wireless networks, WINE, thunderbird,
mozilla firefox, OpenOffice, NX Nomachine
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