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The Ultimate Linux Shell Scripting Guide

You're reading from The Ultimate Linux Shell Scripting Guide Automate, Optimize, and Empower tasks with Linux Shell Scripting

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835463574

Length 696 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Bash

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Donald A. Tevault

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with the Shell FREE CHAPTER

2. Interpreting Commands

3. Understanding Variables and Pipelines

4. Understanding Input/Output Redirection

5. Customizing the Environment

6. Text-Stream Filters – Part 1

7. Text Stream Filters – Part 2

8. Basic Shell Script Construction

9. Filtering Text with grep, sed, and Regular Expressions

10. Understanding Functions

11. Performing Mathematical Operations

12. Automating Scripts with here Documents and expect

13. Scripting with ImageMagick

14. Using awk – Part 1

15. Using awk – Part 2

16. Creating User Interfaces with yad, dialog, and xdialog

17. Using Shell Script Options with getops

18. Shell Scripting for Security Professionals

19. Shell Script Portability

20. Shell Script Security

21. Debugging Shell Scripts

22. Introduction to Z Shell Scripting

23. Using PowerShell on Linux

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

25. Index

Technical Requirements

For the Linux demos in this chapter, I’ll use a Fedora Server virtual machine. That’s because these demos will use features and utilities that are unique to Red Hat-type distros, such as Fedora. However, you can easily adapt them to other Linux distros, such as Ubuntu or Debian, if you desire.

I’ll also be showing you some things on OpenIndiana and FreeBSD. On your FreeBSD virtual machine, I’m assuming that you’ve already installed bash, and set up a normal user account with full sudo privileges, as I’ve shown you in Chapter 12, Automating Scripts with here Documents and expect.

Also, as always, you can grab the scripts from Github by running:

git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/The-Ultimate-Linux-Shell-Scripting-Guide.git

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Authors (1)

Donald A. Tevault

Donald A. Tevault

Donald A. Tevault - but you can call him Donnie - got involved with Linux way back in 2006, and has been working with it ever since. He holds the Linux Professional Institute Level 3-Security certification, and the GIAC Incident Handler certification. Donnie is a professional Linux trainer, and thanks to the magic of the internet, teaches Linux classes literally the world over from the comfort of his living room. He's also a Linux security researcher for an IoT security company.

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