Welcome to the fourth course in our series preparing you for the LPIC1, Linux Server Professional certification exam. In this course, we'll learn about the Linux command line. And especially how, by using text based tools you can closely and efficiently control just about everything that's happening on your system. We'll explore terminal shells and environment variables.

Manipulating and redirecting text streams. File management, and archive backup tools. How to control systems and processes.

How to launch sophisticated conditional tech searches in the world of the terminal text editor, in particular VI. We'll also learn how to use Linux's "man" system of in line help documentation.

I must warn you, that some of the videos in this course are going to be packed end to end with commands and more commands.

Unfortunately, there really is no way around it. The power of the Linux command line lies partly in having access to the full tool kit. And there are a lot of tools in this kit. But successfully absorbing and mastering the material, will simply be impossible without trying everything out yourself. Even better, you should try to work on actual projects using these tools.

Finally, while we will normally connect Linux topics to their cloud computing counterparts and show how system administration is done on AWS, since the material on this course lies so close to the very core of systems administration, there really is nothing here that would be done any differently in the cloud. But I have little doubt that over the course of a career administrating AWS infrastructure, that you will happily make good use of many of these tools.