Writing Bash to Win and Profit

In this chapter, we will introduce the following topics:

• Creating a lame utility HTTP server
• Parsing RSS feeds and output HTML
• Scraping the web and collecting files
• Making a simple IRC chat bot logger
• Blocking IP addresses from failed SSH attempts
• Playing and managing audio from Bash
• Creating a simple NAT and DMZ firewall
• Parsing a GitHub project and generate a report
• Creating a poor man's incremental remote backup
• Using Bash scripts to monitor udev input
• Using Bash to monitor battery life and optimize it
• Using chroot and Restricted Bash shells to secure scripts