This is the code repository for Bash Quick Start Guide, published by Packt.
Get up and running with shell scripting with Bash
Bash and shell script programming is central to using Linux, but it has many peculiar properties that are hard to understand and unfamiliar to many programmers, with a lot of misleading and even risky information online. Bash Quick Start Guide tackles these problems head on, and shows you the best practices of shell script programming.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Understand where the Bash shell fits in the system administration and programming worlds
- Use the interactive Bash command line effectively
- Get to grips with the structure of a Bash command line
- Master pattern-matching and transforming text with Bash
- Filter and redirect program input and output
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All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.
The code will look like the following:
#!/bin/bash
printf 'Starting script\n' >> log
printf 'Creating test directory\n' >> log
mkdir test || exit
printf 'Changing into test directory\n' >> log
cd test || exit
printf 'Writing current date\n' >> log
date > date || exit
Following is what you need for this book: People who use the command line on Unix and Linux servers already, but don't write primarily in Bash. This book is ideal for people who've been using a scripting language such as Python, JavaScript or PHP, and would like to understand and use Bash more effectively.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-8).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1-8 | Bash 4.0 or newer | GNU/Linux (recommended), Mac OS X, or BSD |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
Tom Ryder is a systems administrator living in New Zealand who works for an internet services provider. He loves terminals, text editors, network monitoring and security, Unix and GNU/Linux, shell script, and programming in general. He is also the author of the Nagios Core Administration Cookbook.
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