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Bash Cookbook

You're reading from   Bash Cookbook Leverage Bash scripting to automate daily tasks and improve productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788629362
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ganesh Sanjiv Naik Ganesh Sanjiv Naik
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Ron Brash Ron Brash
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Crash Course in Bash FREE CHAPTER 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 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a lame utility HTTP server

In this recipe, we will discuss the cURL tool in Linux. The cURL tool is used for transferring the data from or to a server. It supports many protocols, and http is one of them. cURL is used to transfer the data from URL. It has so many tricks to offer, such as http post, ftp post, user authentication, proxy support, file transfer, SSL connections, cookies, and similar.

Getting ready

Besides having a Terminal open, you need to ensure that you have curl installed on your system.

How to do it…

We will learn about HTTP GET and...

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