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Bash Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788629362
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ganesh Sanjiv Naik Ganesh Sanjiv Naik
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Ron Brash Ron Brash
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

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

Introduction


This chapter will help power users to get an idea on how to perform certain tasks with shell scripts. These tasks include creating syslog entries using the logger command, taking backups, creating graphics and presentations on the CLI, checking file integrity and tampering, mounting network file systems and retrieving files, browsing the web, capturing network traffic, finding binary dependencies, and encrypting and decrypting a files. In this chapter, users will learn how to use scripts to do these tasks.

 

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