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Bash Cookbook

You're reading from   Bash Cookbook Leverage Bash scripting to automate daily tasks and improve productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788629362
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ganesh Sanjiv Naik Ganesh Sanjiv Naik
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Ron Brash Ron Brash
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Crash Course in Bash FREE CHAPTER 2. Acting Like a Typewriter and File Explorer 3. Understanding and Gaining File System Mastery 4. Making a Script Behave Like a Daemon 5. Scripts for System Administration Tasks 6. Scripts for Power Users 7. Writing Bash to Win and Profit 8. Advanced Scripting Techniques 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Advanced Scripting Techniques

In this chapter, we will introduce the following recipes:

  • Calculating and reducing the runtime of a script
  • Writing one-line conditional statements and loops
  • Avoiding command not found warnings/errors and improving portability
  • Creating a config file and using it in tandem with your scripts
  • Improving your shell – GCC and command line colors
  • Adding aliases, and altering user paths/variables
  • Echoing output to raw terminal devices
  • Creating simple frontend GUIs for Bash scripts
  • Compiling and installing your own Bash Shell
  • Recording terminal sessions for automation
  • Writing high-quality scripts by example
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