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Linux_Shell_Scripting_Notes_Complete

The document provides comprehensive notes on Linux and Shell Scripting, organized into six units covering system structure, file representation, process control, shell scripting, AWK and Perl programming, and an overview of Linux history and features. Key topics include kernel management, system calls, process states, shell types, and programming constructs. It serves as a complete guide for understanding Linux systems and scripting.

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Linux_Shell_Scripting_Notes_Complete

The document provides comprehensive notes on Linux and Shell Scripting, organized into six units covering system structure, file representation, process control, shell scripting, AWK and Perl programming, and an overview of Linux history and features. Key topics include kernel management, system calls, process states, shell types, and programming constructs. It serves as a complete guide for understanding Linux systems and scripting.

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Linux & Shell Scripting (G4A20LSS) - Complete Unit-wise Notes

Unit 1: General Overview of the System

- System structure: Hardware, Kernel, System Calls, User Space.

- User perspective: Shell, commands, user directories.

- OS Services: File, Process, Memory management, Security.

- Kernel & Buffer Cache: Manages I/O and data caching.

- Kernel Data Structures: Process table, inode table, etc.

- System Administration: User mgmt, disk mgmt, logs.

- Buffer headers & pool: Metadata for disk blocks.

- Buffer retrieval & disk I/O: Strategies to optimize reads/writes.

Unit 2: Internal Representation of Files

- INODES: Metadata holder for files.

- Regular Files & Directories: Data + path resolution.

- Super Block: Filesystem metadata.

- System Calls: open, read, write, close, unlink.

- Mount/Unmount: Attach/detach filesystems.

- Links: Hard and soft links.

Unit 3: Structures of Processes and Process Control


- Process States: Running, waiting, zombie.

- Memory Layout: Text, Data, Heap, Stack.

- Process Context & Switching.

- Process Creation: fork(), exit().

- IPC: Pipes, Message Queues, Shared Memory.

- Multiprocessor Handling: Synchronization, semaphores.

Unit 4: Introduction to Shell Scripts

- Shell Types: bash, sh, csh.

- Unix Commands, Permissions.

- Filters: grep, sed, awk.

- Variables, Scripts, Metacharacters.

- Control Statements: if, case.

- Loops: for, while, until.

Unit 5: Awk and Perl Programming

- AWK: Pattern scanning, BEGIN/END, built-ins.

- Arrays, functions, string ops.

- PERL: chop(), $_, $. , regex, file handling.

- Subroutines and formatted output.

Unit 6: Linux
- History: Linus Torvalds, GPL, Open-source.

- Features: Secure, multitasking, portable.

- Architecture: Kernel, Shell, Utilities.

- Distributions: Ubuntu, Fedora, Kali, RHEL.

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