Overview
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Learn how to manage files and directories, create links, and set permissions in Enterprise Linux 8.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Manage files and permissions in Linux
- What you should know
- Get help with commands
- Using the exercise files
- Reconfigure or migrate CentOS
- What is a file?
- Getting information about files
- About extended attributes
- Getting extended attributes
- About file globs
- Using character classes
- Using globs to match files
- Matching with brace expansion
- The Magic of extended globs
- Matching files with extended globs
- Advanced extended globs
- Understanding filesystem paths
- Creating files and dirs
- Copying files and dirs
- Moving and renaming files and dirs
- Deleting files and dirs
- Creating links to files and dirs
- Making file manipulation safe
- Challenge: Linux files
- Solution: Linux files
- Standard Linux permissions overview
- File and directory modes
- File ownership
- Permissions using numeric notation
- Permissions using symbolic notation
- Initial permissions using umask
- Special file bits: SUID and SGID
- Special directory bits: SGID and Sticky
- Challenge: Permissions
- Solution: Permissions
- ACL overview
- Read ACLs
- Setting ACLs
- Manage Default ACLs
- Delete ACLs
- ACL tricks
- Challenge: ACLs
- Solution: ACLs
- Next steps
