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Mastering Bash

You're reading from   Mastering Bash A Step-by-Step Guide to working with Bash Programming and Shell Scripting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784396879
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Giorgio Zarrelli Giorgio Zarrelli
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let's Start Programming 2. Operators FREE CHAPTER 3. Testing 4. Quoting and Escaping 5. Menus, Arrays, and Functions 6. Iterations 7. Plug into the Real World 8. We Want to Chat 9. Subshells, Signals, and Job Controls 10. Lets Make a Process Chat 11. Living as a Daemon 12. Remote Connections over SSH 13. Its Time for a Timer 14. Time for Safety

Testing

We have stressed so far the importance of giving a structure to our scripts, to make them flexible, and to have them react to some conditions and situations so that they will help us automate some routine tasks making decisions and performing actions on our behalf. What we saw in the previous chapters enables us to assign variables, change their values in different ways, and also to preserve them; but from the examples shown, it is clear that we need some more and this is what this new chapter is all about. We will see how to test, make comparisons, and get to react accordingly to the results, and we will give our first structure to a script having to make a decision if something happens.

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