December 2018
Beginner
452 pages
12h 17m
English
Content preview from Learn Linux Shell Scripting - Fundamentals of Bash 4.4
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What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction, primes you for the remainder of the book. Aided by some background in Linux and Bash, you should be better able to understand how and why shell scripting can provide clear benefits to you.
Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Local Environment, helps you to prepare your local machine for the examples and exercises throughout the rest of the book. You will be shown how to set up an Ubuntu 18.04 Linux virtual machine on your local machine, using VirtualBox. This virtual machine will be used to write, run, and debug commands and scripts in this book.
Chapter 3, Choosing the Right Tools, introduces you to the tools that will be used to write shell scripts. Two different kinds of tools will be described: IDE ...