Introduction to Bash Scripting
Chapters
If you are looking for a beginer's course for Bash scripting, This course is very well for you. I've covered some of the most important topics to get you started. Course contents include
- Welcome message [Free]
- What is Bash
- Command line shortcuts and tricks
- Getting started with Bash profiles
- Bash Expansions
- Command Redirection and Piping
- Using Echo and PrintF and how to preventing command expansion
- Understanding local and environment variables
- Bash script syntax
- A basic Bash script
- Working with numbers and operators
- Working with arrays
- Controlling output with awk, grep and cut commands. How to use basic bash color themes with your output.
- Working with here document and files
- Flow control statements and loops
- Introduction to functions
- Interacting with user
- Closing note
I hope that you will learn heaps from this course, please leave your feedback and improvement suggestions.
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Added on: 23rd Jan 2015
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You have learned quite a bit in a very short time. Most of the times, knowledge is built with knowledge, whatever you have gathered in this course, make sure to make good use of it. There is so much that you can achieve with bash script, and with contant learning, you can build really advanced scripts. There are heaps of online resources that you can utilize. First one is How to guide for bash, by Mike G. Then If you ever have a question to ask regarding bash scripts, you can seek professional help for free on stack overflow. Many professionals use stack overflow site day in day out and help each other out. Check out questions that are tagged with bash, to see if your questions is already answered. Other bash resource to keep in touch would be bash hackers wiki site. The main motivation for this wiki was to provide human-readable documentation and information to not force users to read every bit of the Bash manpage. This is actually a very handy site and is full of information. And then we have www.gnu.org with Bash reference manual, which is kinda very handy and has some examples for various things. You can also use built in manual for bash by just typing man bash in command line.
I hope that you enjoyed this course, Please send us feedback and improvement suggestions. Thank you for taking this course.