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Learn Linux Shell Scripting – Fundamentals of Bash 4.4

You're reading from   Learn Linux Shell Scripting – Fundamentals of Bash 4.4 A comprehensive guide to automating administrative tasks with the Bash shell

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788995597
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sebastiaan Tammer Sebastiaan Tammer
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Local Environment 3. Choosing the Right Tools 4. The Linux Filesystem 5. Understanding the Linux Permissions Scheme 6. File Manipulation 7. Hello World! 8. Variables and User Input 9. Error Checking and Handling 10. Regular Expressions 11. Conditional Testing and Scripting Loops 12. Using Pipes and Redirection in Scripts 13. Functions 14. Scheduling and Logging 15. Parsing Bash Script Arguments with getopts 16. Bash Parameter Substitution and Expansion 17. Tips and Tricks with Cheat Sheet 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Structure of the Linux filesystem

While there are many more advanced filesystem features that are very interesting, we want to focus on what makes the Linux filesystem distinctively Linux: the filesystem structure. If you're used to Windows, this will probably be the single most confusing difference between the two operating systems. If you're coming from macOS, the difference is still noticeable, but much smaller: this is a result of macOS being a Unix operating system, which has obvious similarities with the Unix-like Linux structure.

We're going to be interactively exploring the Linux filesystem from this point on. We advise you to follow along with the code examples that follow, since this increases information retention significantly. Besides that, your system might look differently from the one we use, should you have chosen not to use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for...

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