Training activity information

Details

Use Linux command line and command line tools to:

  • Change a file owner and permissions
  • Change the content of a file
  • Count the number of lines in a file
  • Identify the process taking up the most memory
  • Check file system disk space usage

Type

Developmental training activity (DTA)

Evidence requirements

Evidence the activity has been undertaken by the trainee​.

Reflection on the activity at one or more time points after the event including learning from the activity and/or areas of the trainees practice for development.

An action plan to implement learning and/or to address skills or knowledge gaps identified.

Considerations

  • For example: grep, awk, sed, cat, find, xargs, ls and mkdir
  • Navigating the file system
  • Manipulating directories and files on command line
  • File system structure and permissions, including mounting drives
  • Managing file and user permissions
  • Escalating user permissions, for example: sudo
  • Inspecting and managing processes and storage
  • Redirection and piping
  • File types

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome

Process data in a Linux environment.