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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook Do amazing things with the shell and automate tedious tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785881985
Length 552 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Shell Something Out FREE CHAPTER 2. Have a Good Command 3. File In, File Out 4. Texting and Driving 5. Tangled Web? Not At All! 6. Repository Management 7. The Backup Plan 8. The Old-Boy Network 9. Put On the Monitors Cap 10. Administration Calls 11. Tracing the Clues 12. Tuning a Linux System 13. Containers, Virtual Machines, and the Cloud

Shell Something Out

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Displaying output in a terminal
  • Using variables and environment variables
  • Function to prepend to environment variables
  • Math with the shell
  • Playing with file descriptors and redirection
  • Arrays and associative arrays
  • Visiting aliases
  • Grabbing information about the terminal
  • Getting and setting dates and delays
  • Debugging the script
  • Functions and arguments
  • Sending output from one command to another
  • Reading n characters without pressing the return key
  • Running a command until it succeeds
  • Field separators and iterators
  • Comparisons and tests
  • Customizing bash with configuration files
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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
Published in: May 2017
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