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Bash Quick Start Guide

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Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789538830
Length 186 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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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Preface 1. What is Bash? FREE CHAPTER 2. Bash Command Structure 3. Essential Commands 4. Input, Output, and Redirection 5. Variables and Patterns 6. Loops and Conditionals 7. Scripts, Functions, and Aliases 8. Best Practices 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Tools to check shell scripts for problems

The ShellCheck tool is a linter for shell script, designed to find bugs and trouble spots in various flavors of shell scripts, including Bash. It identifies many of the common errors discussed in this book, and many more besides. It is available as both an online service and a command-line tool at https://www.shellcheck.net/.

The output of ShellCheck points you directly to trouble spots in your code, including error codes for reference with its online documentation:

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