Linux Log Parsing Instructor Guide

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Logs are a critical aspect of a Linux system as they provide valuable information utilized for troubleshooting, performance analysis, security, and compliance. The concepts and examples presented here explore specific commonly utilized ways to parse logs, accompanied by practical and advanced command examples to demonstrate their usage in real-world scenarios.

The material will be useful to a system administrator, power user, end user or student looking to further their knowledge in this area. 

The guide is meant to be utilized by an individual whom will be reviewing via demonstration format these core topics. After each example, the commands, parameters, and options are explained.

Contents

How to use and run commands

Common Linux System Logs

Awk

Cut

Diff

Grep

Sed

Sort

Uniq

Vimdiff

Wc

Linux - Chroot

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

chroot – command to change the root directory.

Example: chroot /path/new_root

Linux - Chpasswd

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day: 
chpasswd – allows updated passwords in batch mode.

Example:

chpasswd

user1 newpassword1

user2 newpassword2

Note: when done update of username password setting enter in Ctrl-D on the keyboard. 

Linux - Chown

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

chown – change the user and/or group ownership of a given file or directory.

-R parameter for recursive traverse through all contents where command is run from.

Note: only a user with root access can use the chown command.

Example: chown -R root:name_of_group name_of_folder

Linux Wildcard and Meta Characters Instructor Guide

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In Linux, wildcards and meta-characters are invaluable tools for efficient file manipulation and pattern matching. The concepts and examples presented here explore specific commonly utilized wildcards and metacharacters, accompanied by practical and advanced command examples to demonstrate their usage in real-world scenarios. The material will be useful to a system administrator, power user, end user or student looking to further their knowledge in this area. 

The guide is meant to be utilized by an individual who will be reviewing via demonstration format these core topics.

Contents

Instructor or End User Set-up:

Create Example Files:

Common Wildcards:

Asterisk (*)

Question mark (?)

Square brackets ([])

Curly braces ({})

Tilde (~)

Backslash (\)

Exclamation mark (!)

Common Character Classes:

Asterisk (*)

Question Mark (?)

Range of Characters ([])

[characters]

[!characters]

[[:class:]]:

[[:alnum:]]

[[:alpha:]]

[[:digit:]]

[[:lower:]]

[[:upper:]]

Common Meta-Characters:

Pipe (|)

Greater than (>)

Double greater than (>>)

Less than (<)

Caret (^)

Dollar Sign ($)

Ampersand (&)

Semicolon (;)

Combining Wildcards and Meta-Characters

Conclusion:

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Linux - Chgrp

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

chgrp – changes group ownership to a said group.

-R parameter for recursive traverse through all contents where command is run from.

Example: chgrp -R root name_of_folder

Linux - Child process

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

child process – process created by another process (which would be the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process.

Linux - Chfn

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

chfn – utilized to modify finger command based information. The information is stored in the /etc/passwd location. It includes the user's name, work location, work phone number, and home phone number.

Example: chfn

Linux - Checkeq (eqn or neqn)

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

checkeq (eqn or neqn) – command utilized to describe equation aspects.

-v parameter to print version.

Example: eqn hello.c

  

Linux - Cfdisk

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

cfdisk – partition table manipulator for a Linux drive.

m = option used to maximize the disk usage of the current partition.

-h parameter display for help text.

-V parameter to display version information.

Example: cfdisk -V

Linux - CD

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

cd (also can be chdir)  – change directory.

cd .. moves backwards to the next higher subdirectory level.

cd / moves  to the highest root directory level.

Examples:

cd tmp

cd ..

cd /

Linux - CC

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

cc – executes the systems C coding compiler. By default, the output will be written to the executable file a.out.

-o parameter to output the executable file to the name of ones choosing.

Examples:

cc thefile.c

cc thefile.c -o mynewfile

Linux - Cat

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

cat – is short for catenate and used to display content, usually from file and directories.

/proc/ is a virtual file system that contains information about process and system information.

/proc/meminfo – information related to the memory in the system.

/proc/uptime – shows number of seconds the system is up and running. The second value in the listing shows the total number of idle seconds for each central processing unit (CPU).

Examples:

cat /proc/

cat /proc/meminfo

cat /proc/uptime