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Bash Cookbook

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Product type Book

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788629362

Pages 264 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Workflow Automation

Authors (2):

Ron Brash

Ganesh Sanjiv Naik

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Crash Course in Bash

2. Acting Like a Typewriter and File Explorer

3. Understanding and Gaining File System Mastery

4. Making a Script Behave Like a Daemon

5. Scripts for System Administration Tasks

6. Scripts for Power Users

7. Writing Bash to Win and Profit

8. Advanced Scripting Techniques

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Index

Creating symbolic links and using them effectively

Symbolic links mean shortcuts, right? Well, if you ever heard that explanation, it is only partially correct and they are present on most modern OS. In fact, there are two kinds of symbolic links when thinking in terms of files: hard and soft:

Hard Links	Soft Links
Only link to files	Can link to directories and files
Link to contents on same disk	Can reference files/folders across disks or networks
Reference inode/physical locations	If the original file is deleted, the hard link will remain (in own inodes)
Moving a file will still allow the link to work	Links don't follow the reference file if moved

A soft link will most likely match your expectations of a shortcut and the behavior might not be very surprising, but what use is a hard link? One of the most prominent cases of when to use a hard link is when you don't want to break a link by moving the file it points to! A soft link is clearly more flexible and can work across file systems, which is...

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Authors (2)

Ron Brash

Ron Brash is the CTO and co-founder of a successful technology consultancy company that provides services in a multitude of domains, but primarily in FOSS and Linux. For over 7 years, he has worked on embedded systems, which provide security and network connectivity in industrial control systems and SCADA networks, all running an optimized embedded Linux. He participates regularly at FOSS and community events, providing feedback and mini-seminars where appropriate. He loves to share his knowledge.

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Ganesh Sanjiv Naik

Ganesh Sanjiv Naik is an author, consultant, and corporate trainer for embedded Android, embedded Linux, and Internet of Things related product development. He completed his computer engineering in 1988. Since then, he has worked in this industry. He has worked on projects including micro-controller based projects to advanced Embedded Android projects. He has more than 20 years of professional experience and project accomplishment in information technology. Ganesh has a passion and deep desire for teaching. He has trained 1,000 engineers in Linux and Android product development. He has developed a lot of training material as well as curriculum for various universities and training institutes. He has an interest in spiritual study and practices such as meditation. He is a certified yoga teacher. His hobbies include yoga and martial arts. He has worked as a corporate trainer for Indian Space Research Organization, Intel, GE, Samsung, Motorola, Penang Skill Development Center (Malaysia), various companies in Singapore as well as various other corporates in India and other countries. He has started a company called Levana Technologies, which works with the Penang Skill Development Center (Malaysia) for consulting and training activities. If you would like to send feedback, suggestions, or corrections in the book, he can be contacted at https://in.linkedin.com/in/naikganesh. This book is his real-life experience…. He has worked as a consultant and corporate trainer in the following skills: • Internet of Things • Embedded Android, Android internals, and device driver development • USB and PCI device driver development in Linux • Embedded Linux and device driver development • Unix Shell scripting with sed and awk • Embedded C++ and C programming • Operating systems, software engineering, and networking • Problem solving—analysis, reasoning, and solution techniques for software engineers

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