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You're reading from Learn Linux Shell Scripting ‚àö¬¢‚Äö√á¬®‚Äö√Ñ√∫ Fundamentals of Bash 4.4 A comprehensive guide to automating administrative tasks with the Bash shell

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788995597

Length 452 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Bash

Tools

Bash

Concepts

Shell Scripting

Author (1):

Sebastiaan Tammer

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

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

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Authors (1)

Tammer

Sebastiaan Tammer is a Linux enthusiast from The Netherlands. After attaining his BSc in Information Sciences, he graduated with a MSc in Business Informatics, both from Utrecht University. His professional career started in Java development, before he pivoted into a Linux opportunity. Because of this dual background, he feels most at home in a DevOps environment. Besides working extensively with a number of technologies such as Puppet, Chef, Docker and Kubernetes, Sebastiaan has also attained the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) certificates. But most importantly, he spends a lot of time in and around his terminal of choice: Bash. Whether it is creating complex scripting solutions or just automating simple tasks, there is hardly anything he hasnt done with Bash!

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