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Linux Shell Scripting Essentials
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Linux Shell Scripting Essentials

by Sinny Kumari
November 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
282 pages
5h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1. The Beginning of the Scripting Journey

Unix, Unix-like, or Linux-based OS provide a lot of powerful features to work upon. Among them, the most powerful and important feature is executing a wide range of commands to perform a task quickly and easily; for example, ls, cat, sort, grep, and so on. We will come to know about a subset of commands and usages throughout this book. In order to run a command, we need an interface that is widely known as shell.

Shell is a program that acts as an interface between the users (we) and the OS kernel (Linux, Unix, and so on). Understanding in terms of Windows OS, shell serves a similar purpose DOS does. Different shells are available for Unix, Unix-like, or Linux OS. Some of the popular shells are ...

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