Linux Shell Programming For Beginners Online Course

Linux Shell Programming for Beginners

All levels
English

Course Description

Imagine having to continuously repeat one process over and over again for a long period of time – sounds pretty boring, doesn’t it? Well, a huge number of developers end up doing this when they are coding, repeating sections of their codes over and over again – especially when it comes to working with Linux. The UNIX or Linux operating system is a powerful tool for designing other operating sys...

The UNIX or Linux operating system is a powerful tool for designing other operating systems or coding apps, systems and even websites. However, it has this little hitch – you need to use tons of commands to get the system to program. This is where developers waste much of their time, repeating monotonous tasks.

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What you’ll learn

How to write well documented, modular, efficient, and complex shell scripts
How to automate your daily routing jobs
A firm grasp of general programming concepts such as loops, commands, statements
How to effectively write command line processing, process management and even manipulate command-line functions
A basis of programming concepts that can help you learn high-level programming languages such as Java or C#.
With so much packed in this tiny course, it is perfect for you to start learning BASH. Enroll now and let’s get automated!

Covering Topics | Program Insights

Section 1 : Course Introduction

Section 2 : Introduction to Bash

Section 3 : Command Line Tips and Tricks

Section 4 : Customizing your Shell

Section 5 : Understanding Shell Scripts

Section 6 : Condition and Loops

Section 7 : Command Line Options

Section 8 : Bash Input Output

Section 9 : Process Management

Section 10 : BASH Administration

Section 11 : Best Practices

Section 12 : Summary

Curriculum

  Section 1 : Course Introduction
1
Introduction

  Section 2 : Introduction to Bash
2
Introduction to BASS
3
The directory concept 
4
Running jobs in the background

  Section 3 : Command Line Tips and Tricks
5
The interactive mode
6
The vi editing mode
7
Using the fc command

  Section 4 : Customizing your Shell
8
The BASH environment
9
Shell options
10
Single and double quotes
11
The shell prompt variables
12
The CDPATH variable

  Section 5 : Understanding Shell Scripts
13
Shell Programming Essentials 
14
Positional Variables
15
Manipulating variables in place
16
Using patterns in string operations
17
Assigning command output to variables

  Section 6 : Condition and Loops
18
Deciision Making
19
More elegant ways of testing conditions
20
Testing for integers
21
The select statement

  Section 7 : Command Line Options
22
Command-line options
23
More Complex options: the getopts command
24
LAB: adding more opions to highest.st
25
Increment and decrement operators
26
The for loop revisited

  Section 8 : Bash Input Output
27
BASH I/O
28
The echo command
29
LAB: enhancing the log rotation script

  Section 9 : Process Management
30
Process Management
31
Process signals
32
Reacting to signals

  Section 10 : BASH Administration
33
BASH Administration
34
Setting default file permissions Part A
35
Setting default file permissions Part B

  Section 11 : Best Practices
36
BASH Best Practices

  Section 12 : Summary
37
Summary

  Section 8 : Bash Input Output
27
BASH I/O
28
The echo command
29
LAB: enhancing the log rotation script

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