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Linux Shell Scripting Essentials

You're reading from   Linux Shell Scripting Essentials Learn shell scripting to solve complex shell-related problems and to efficiently automate your day-to-day tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785284441
Length 282 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. The Beginning of the Scripting Journey FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Hands-on with I/O, Redirection Pipes, and Filters 3. Effective Script Writing 4. Modularizing and Debugging 5. Customizing the Environment 6. Working with Files 7. Welcome to the Processes 8. Scheduling Tasks and Embedding Languages in Scripts Index

Using bash startup files


Until now, to perform a task or set anything for a given shell, we had to execute the needed commands in a shell. One of the main limitations to this approach is that the same configuration won't be available in a new shell. In a lot of cases, a user may want that whenever he or she launches a new shell, whereas instead a new customized configuration on top of the default configuration is available for use. For customizing bash, three files are available in a user's home directory that get executed by default whenever a user launches a new bash. These files are bashrc, .bash_profile, and .bash_logout.

.bashrc

In a graphical system, mostly a non-login shell is used by a user. To run a non-login shell, we don't need the login credentials. Starting a shell in a graphical system provides a non-login shell. When a bash is invoked in non-login mode, the ~/.bashrc file is invoked and the configuration available in it is executed and applied in any bash shell being launched...

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