Bash Cookbook

Getting ready

Let's get ready for the exercise by creating some data sets which mimic common daily problems:

$ cd ~/$ echo $ echo -e "XML_HDR='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'\\nSRT_CONTR='<words type="greeting">'\\nEND_CONTR='</words>'" > xml-parent.tpl$ echo -e "ELM='\"<word lang=\"\$1\">\"\$2\"</word>\"'" > word.tpl$ echo -e "\"EN\",\"Hello\"\n\"FR\",\"Bonjour\"" > words.csv

In Bash, the single quote (') is used for literal strings. In this case, we want every part of the string to be present without escaping slashes and double quotes.

To operate this script, you have the following applications installed for use within the script:

$ sudo apt-get install npm sed awk$ sudo npm install -g xml2json-command$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs ...