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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788629362

Length 264 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Bash

Tools

Bash

Concepts

Workflow Automation

Authors (2):

Ganesh Sanjiv Naik

Ron Brash

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

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

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Scripts for Power Users

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

Creating Syslog entries and generating an alarm
Backing up and erasing media, disks, and partitions with DD
Creating graphics and presentations on the CLI
Checking for file integrity and tampering
Mounting network file systems and retrieving files
Browsing the web from the CLI
Capturing network traffic headlessly
Finding binary dependencies
Fetching time from different locations
Encrypting/decrypting files from a script

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Authors (2)

Brash

Ron Brash is the CTO and co-founder of a successful technology consultancy company that provides services in a multitude of domains, but primarily in FOSS and Linux. For over 7 years, he has worked on embedded systems, which provide security and network connectivity in industrial control systems and SCADA networks, all running an optimized embedded Linux. He participates regularly at FOSS and community events, providing feedback and mini-seminars where appropriate. He loves to share his knowledge.

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Ganesh Sanjiv Naik

Ganesh Sanjiv Naik is an author, consultant, and corporate trainer for embedded Android, embedded Linux, and Internet of Things related product development. He completed his computer engineering in 1988. Since then, he has worked in this industry. He has worked on projects including micro-controller based projects to advanced Embedded Android projects. He has more than 20 years of professional experience and project accomplishment in information technology. Ganesh has a passion and deep desire for teaching. He has trained 1,000 engineers in Linux and Android product development. He has developed a lot of training material as well as curriculum for various universities and training institutes. He has an interest in spiritual study and practices such as meditation. He is a certified yoga teacher. His hobbies include yoga and martial arts. He has worked as a corporate trainer for Indian Space Research Organization, Intel, GE, Samsung, Motorola, Penang Skill Development Center (Malaysia), various companies in Singapore as well as various other corporates in India and other countries. He has started a company called Levana Technologies, which works with the Penang Skill Development Center (Malaysia) for consulting and training activities. If you would like to send feedback, suggestions, or corrections in the book, he can be contacted at https://in.linkedin.com/in/naikganesh. This book is his real-life experience…. He has worked as a consultant and corporate trainer in the following skills: • Internet of Things • Embedded Android, Android internals, and device driver development • USB and PCI device driver development in Linux • Embedded Linux and device driver development • Unix Shell scripting with sed and awk • Embedded C++ and C programming • Operating systems, software engineering, and networking • Problem solving—analysis, reasoning, and solution techniques for software engineers

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