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Linux: Files and Permissions

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Overview

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Learn how to manage files and directories, create links, and set permissions in CentOS 7.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
1. Linux Files
  • What is a file?
  • Get file attributes
  • Get extended attributes
  • Pattern matching using globs
  • Pattern matching using extended globs
2. Manipulate Files
  • Create files and dirs
  • Copy files and dirs
  • Move and rename files and dirs
  • Remove files and dirs
  • Create links to files and dirs
  • Add overwrite warnings to cp, mv, and rm
3. Standard Unix Permissions
  • Standard Linux permissions overview
  • File and directory modes
  • File ownership
  • Set permissions using numeric method
  • Set permissions using symbolic method
  • Default permissions using umask
  • Special file bits: SUID and SGID
  • Special directory bits: SGID and Sticky
4. ACLs
  • ACL overview
  • Read ACLs
  • Set ACLs
  • Manage default ACLs
  • Delete ACLs
  • ACL tricks
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Grant McWilliams

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