Welcome to "Basic administration", the second of four tutorials designed to prepare you for the Linux Professional Institute's 101 exam. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use regular expressions to search files for text patterns. Next, we'll introduce you to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, or FHS, and then show you how to locate files on your system. Then, we'll show you how to take full control of Linux processes by running them in the background, listing processes, detaching processes from the terminal, and more. Finally, we'll give you a whirlwind introduction to shell pipelines, redirection, and text processing commands.

By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a solid grounding in basic Linux administration and will be ready to begin learning some more advanced Linux system administration skills.

By the end of this series of tutorials (eight in all), you'll have the knowledge you need to become a Linux Systems Administrator and will be ready to attain an LPIC Level 1 certification from the Linux Professional Institute if you so choose.

The LPI logo is a trademark of Linux Professional Institute.