Technical Requirements

Use any Linux distro that has bash installed. If you’re a Mac user, you’ll want to use one of your Linux virtual machines, because some of the scripts use commands that won’t work on macOS. Feel free to follow along on your local machine as you go through this chapter, but also be aware that I will provide some actual hands-on labs.

I’ve also included one hands-on exercise that uses a FreeBSD virtual machine. Create the FreeBSD virtual machine and install both sudo and bash, as I showed you in the book’s Preface.

Also, as I explained in the Preface, you can download the scripts from the Github repository by doing:

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