What does “Linux Experience” mean anyway

Anyfactor

2 min readMar 11, 2019

People have told me these activities define more or less “the linux experience”

A reference to the post “What does “linux experience” mean in job postings?”

Linux and shell scripting experience guideline

Functions

The general functions of using and getting used in Linux environment specially the terminal can be categorized in -

File exploring
File management
Launching applications
Installing packages
Using basic terminal applications such as git
Knowing main directories (like /etc, /home, / var, /usr etc.)
File permissions
Reading man pages

The idea is just familiarity with linux terminal. Other functions that are useful to learn are-

SSH into other devices
SFTP for file transfer
Knowing how certificates work
Reading log files
Installing webserver
Basic webdev with version control
Inspect apache logs
Installing nginx
reverse proxy stuff
Read and write shell scripts
Tools related to communications with servers
Managing server software
Network configuration
Automating server setup using bash scripts

But there may be other functions required based on the type of the job you are looking for, like system administrator work may require much more in depth knowledge of the linux environment.

Commands

Knowing commands such as -

chmod
grep
less/more
nano/pico/vi
mv
ls
cd
cp
rm
head
sort
find
df
sudo
mkdir
man

Using basic tools such

cron
git
ssh
scp
wget
top
iftop
chmod
apt-get
pip
docker
crontab

Learning methods

Using linux in a VM (Virtual Machine)
Xubuntu
Linux with no GUI
Linux subsystem for windows (Ubuntu subsystem)
Buy a raspberry pi, or an old laptop install linux and experiment on it, like SSHing into it
Cloud hosting a linux box (AWS)
Dual boot
Git bash

What does “Linux Experience” mean anyway

Linux and shell scripting experience guideline

Functions

Commands

Learning methods

Learning materials

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