December 2018
Beginner
452 pages
12h 17m
English
Content preview from Learn Linux Shell Scripting - Fundamentals of Bash 4.4
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Hello World!
In this chapter, we will finally start writing shell scripts. After writing and running our very own Hello World! script, we will look at some best practices for all future scripts. We will use many techniques to increase the readability of our scripts, and we will follow the KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid) where possible.
The following commands will be introduced in this chapter: head, tail, and wget.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- First steps
- Readability
- KISS