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Learn Linux Shell Scripting – Fundamentals of Bash 4.4

You're reading from   Learn Linux Shell Scripting ‚àö¬¢‚Äö√ᬮ‚Äö√Ñ√∫ Fundamentals of Bash 4.4 A comprehensive guide to automating administrative tasks with the Bash shell

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788995597
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sebastiaan Tammer Sebastiaan Tammer
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Setting Up Your Local Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Choosing the Right Tools 4. The Linux Filesystem 5. Understanding the Linux Permissions Scheme 6. File Manipulation 7. Hello World! 8. Variables and User Input 9. Error Checking and Handling 10. Regular Expressions 11. Conditional Testing and Scripting Loops 12. Using Pipes and Redirection in Scripts 13. Functions 14. Scheduling and Logging 15. Parsing Bash Script Arguments with getopts 16. Bash Parameter Substitution and Expansion 17. Tips and Tricks with Cheat Sheet 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using graphical editors for shell scripting

Tooling has come a long way since the first Unix and Unix-like distributions. In the earliest days, writing shell scripts was significantly harder than today: the shells were less powerful, text editors were command-line only and things such as syntax highlighting and autocomplete were non-existent. Today, we have very powerful GUI editors that will help us in our scripting adventures. Why would we want to wait until we run a script to find an error, when a GUI editor could have already shown us the error in advance? Today, using an advanced editor for shell scripting is almost a necessity that we wouldn't want to live without.

We'll describe two text editors in the coming pages: Atom and Notepad++. Both are GUI-based, which we can use for efficient shell scripting. If you have a preference for either already, pick that one...

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