Mastering Linux Shell Scripting

Preface

Mastering Linux Shell Scripting will become your Bible and a handbook to create and edit bash shell scripts in Linux, OS X, or Unix. Starting with the fundamentals, we quickly move onto helping you create useful scripts with practical examples. In this way, your learning becomes effective and quick. With each chapter, we provide explanations of the code and code examples, so from a learning book this becomes a book that you can use as a ready reference, if you need to understand how to program a specific task.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, What and Why of Scripting with Bash, explains how to create and name scripts. Once you have the script created you can make it executable and welcome yourself to the world. If you have little or no ...