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Learn Linux Quickly

You're reading from Learn Linux Quickly A beginner-friendly guide to getting up and running with the world's most powerful operating system

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566002

Length 338 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Ahmed AlKabary

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Your First Keystrokes

2. Climbing the Tree FREE CHAPTER

3. Meet the Editors

4. Copying, Moving, and Deleting Files

5. Read Your Manuals!

6. Hard versus Soft Links

7. Who Is Root?

8. Controlling the Population

9. Piping and I/O Redirection

10. Analyzing and Manipulating Files

11. Let's Play Find and Seek

12. You Got a Package

13. Kill the Process

14. The Power of Sudo

15. What's Wrong with the Network?

16. Bash Scripting Is Fun

17. You Need a Cron Job

18. Archiving and Compressing Files

19. Create Your Own Commands

20. Everyone Needs Disk Space

21. echo "Goodbye My Friend"

22. Assessments

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

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You Need a Cron Job

In this chapter, you will learn how to automate boring tasks in Linux by using cron jobs, which is one of the most useful and powerful utilities in Linux. Thanks to cron jobs, Linux system administrators can rest on the weekend and enjoy their vacation with their beloved ones. Cron jobs allow you to schedule tasks to run at a specific time. With cron jobs, you can schedule to run backups, monitor system resources, and much more.

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Authors (1)

Ahmed AlKabary

Ahmed AlKabary

Ahmed AlKabary is a professional Linux/UNIX system administrator working at IBM Canada. He has over seven years of experience working with various flavors of Linux systems. He also works as an online technical trainer/instructor at Robertson College.Ahmed holds two BSc degrees in computer science and mathematics from the University of Regina. He also holds the following certifications: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, and Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing & Switching (CCNA).

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