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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook Do amazing things with the shell and automate tedious tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785881985
Length 552 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Clif Flynt Clif Flynt
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Sarath Lakshman Sarath Lakshman
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Shell Something Out FREE CHAPTER 2. Have a Good Command 3. File In, File Out 4. Texting and Driving 5. Tangled Web? Not At All! 6. Repository Management 7. The Backup Plan 8. The Old-Boy Network 9. Put On the Monitors Cap 10. Administration Calls 11. Tracing the Clues 12. Tuning a Linux System 13. Containers, Virtual Machines, and the Cloud

Administration Calls

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Gathering information about processes
  • What's what – which, whereis, whatis, and file  
  • Killing processes, and sending and responding to signals
  • Sending messages to user terminals
  • The /proc filesystem
  • Gathering system information
  • Scheduling with a cron
  • Database styles and uses
  • Writing and reading SQLite databases
  • Writing and reading a MySQL database from Bash
  • User administration scripts
  • Bulk image resizing and format conversion
  • Taking screenshots from the terminal
  • Managing multiple terminals from one
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