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Learn Linux Shell Scripting – Fundamentals of Bash 4.4

You're reading from   Learn Linux Shell Scripting – Fundamentals of Bash 4.4 A comprehensive guide to automating administrative tasks with the Bash shell

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788995597
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sebastiaan Tammer Sebastiaan Tammer
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Local Environment 3. Choosing the Right Tools 4. The Linux Filesystem 5. Understanding the Linux Permissions Scheme 6. File Manipulation 7. Hello World! 8. Variables and User Input 9. Error Checking and Handling 10. Regular Expressions 11. Conditional Testing and Scripting Loops 12. Using Pipes and Redirection in Scripts 13. Functions 14. Scheduling and Logging 15. Parsing Bash Script Arguments with getopts 16. Bash Parameter Substitution and Expansion 17. Tips and Tricks with Cheat Sheet 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed four text editing tools, divided into two types: GUI-based editors (Atom and Notepad++) and command-line editors  (Vim and GNU nano), before showing how to use these tools together.

Atom is a powerful text editor that can be configured exactly how you want . By default, it has support for many different coding languages, including shell. It also comes with Git and GitHub integration. We also briefly discussed Notepad++. While not as powerful as Atom, it is also suitable for our purposes, as it is basically an enhanced Notepad with all the important features for shell scripting.

Vim and nano are the two most popular Linux command-line text editors. We have learned that while Vim is very powerful, it is also harder to learn than nano. However, learning how to properly use Vim will speed up many things you do on a Linux system and is...

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