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Mastering Bash

You're reading from   Mastering Bash A Step-by-Step Guide to working with Bash Programming and Shell Scripting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784396879
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Giorgio Zarrelli Giorgio Zarrelli
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let's Start Programming 2. Operators FREE CHAPTER 3. Testing 4. Quoting and Escaping 5. Menus, Arrays, and Functions 6. Iterations 7. Plug into the Real World 8. We Want to Chat 9. Subshells, Signals, and Job Controls 10. Lets Make a Process Chat 11. Living as a Daemon 12. Remote Connections over SSH 13. Its Time for a Timer 14. Time for Safety

Summary

In the previous chapter, we had a look at the variable; now we have just looked at how to correlate them. Assigning values and being able to perform some math or logic operations on them gives us more flexibility, since we do not just collect something, but transform it into something different and new. We also learned that exit codes can sometimes be pitfalls, trapping us with red herrings, and this tells us something important: never take anything as a given, always double-check what you are writing in your code, and always try to catch all the possible outcomes and exceptions. It seems like something obvious, but being such common sense, we tend to overlook this simple but effective code style advice.

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Mastering Bash
Published in: Jun 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781784396879
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