Computer Information Science American River College
Courses

CISC 324: Intermediate Linux Operating System

Units: 1.00
Prerequisite: CISC 323 (Linux Operating System) with a grade of "C" or better
Hours: 18 hours lecture, 18 hours laboratory
Description: This course is a continuation of CISC 323. Topics include boot loaders, Linux devices, and command line interface (CLI) system management utilities. It covers advanced Bourne Again Shell (BASH) shell scripting, including looping and decision making logic structures. Alternates to the BASH shell and regular expressions and text stream editors are introduced.

Section 3: Learning Outcomes and Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • set up a Linux and Microsoft Windows dual booting system.
  • set up, configure, and troubleshoot a boot loader.
  • utilize advanced BASH CLI utilities to inspect and maintain the system and its hardware.
  • compare C shell, K shell, and BASH.
  • create BASH script files utilizing looping structures: do, while, until.
  • create BASH script files implementing decision making logic using: if, for, case and nesting.
  • describe the use of text stream editor and filters such as awk and sed.
  • compose a regular expression for use by the grep utility.
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