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Linux Shell Scripting Bootcamp

You're reading from Linux Shell Scripting Bootcamp The fastest way to learn Linux shell scripting

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787281103

Length 208 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Shell Scripting

Author (1):

James K Lewis

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Shell Scripting FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Variables

3. Using Loops and the sleep Command

4. Creating and Calling Subroutines

5. Creating Interactive Scripts

6. Automating Tasks with Scripts

7. Working with Files

8. Working with wget and curl

9. Debugging Scripts

10. Scripting Best Practices

Index

Preface

In Linux Shell Scripting Bootcamp, you will begin by learning the essentials of script creation. You will learn how to validate parameters and also how to check for the existence of files. Moving on, you will get well-versed with how variables work on a Linux system and how they relate to scripts. You'll also learn how to create and call subroutines and create interactive scripts. Finally, you will learn how to debug scripts and scripting best practices, which will enable you to write a great code every time! By the end of the book you will be able to write shell scripts that can dig data from the Web and process it efficiently.

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Authors (1)

James K Lewis

James K Lewis

James Kent Lewis has been in the computer industry for over 35 years. He started out writing BASIC programs in high school and used punch cards in college for his Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, and assembly language classes. He himself learned the C programming language by writing various utilities, including a fully-functional text editor, which he uses everyday. He started out using DOS and AIX, and then OS/2. Linux is now his operating system of choice. Jim has worked in the past for several companies, including IBM, Texas Instruments, Tandem, Raytheon, Hewlett-Packard, and others. Most of these positions dealt with low-level device drivers and operating system internals. In his spare time he likes to create video games in Java.He has written articles for IBM Developer Works and has one patent.

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