February 2017
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7h 25m
English
Overview
Doing any kind of serious work on a UNIX or Linux system requires a confident understanding of shell scripting. Unfortunately, many people fear the command line and just don't know where to start.
Designed for developers and system administrators with basic UNIX or Linux skills, this course gives you the fundamentals and then moves you beyond them, teaching you how to write production-level scripts with the POSIX shell.
- Master the POSIX shell, learn how it works, and know why it works
- Understand the UNIX Toolbox utilities
- Learn the shell's syntax and its control structures
- Discover the shell's built-in facilities such as variable, command, and arithmetic substitutions
- See how the shell finds built-in commands, functions, and external commands
- Understand and be able to use basic and extended regular expressions
- Learn how to save time by hooking components together in pipelines
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