Course Overview
Linux Shell Scripting is designed to provide the skills necessary to automate tasks on a Unix or Linux system. Systems Administrators and Developers alike can avoid errors, save time and money by replacing repetitive work patterns with shell scripts. Care has been taken to present Linux Shell Scripting in a format that benefits all students, with or without previous programming experience. Guru Labs believes that the best way to learn shell scripting is writing shell scripts. For this reason, lab time is emphasized. Early labs present the scripting process step by step, while later labs are presented in a challenge format. While official solutions to each lab task are provided, students are encouraged to create their own before examining the solution. In this way, more experienced students are challenged without overwhelming the less experienced.
Module 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE SHELL
- Shell Script Strengths and Weaknesses
- Shells
- Switching User Contexts
- Example Shell Script
- Shell and Environment Variables
- Key Environment Variables
- Which and Type
- General Quoting Rules
- Nesting Commands
- Help from Commands and Documentation
- whereis
- Getting Help Within the Graphical Desktop
- Getting Help with man & info
Module 2: SHELL SCRIPTING BASICS
- Positional Parameters
- Input & Output
- printf
- alias
- Functions
- Colors in Scripts
- Custom Bash Prompts
Module 3: WORKING WITH FILES
- Communication Channels
- File Redirection
- Piping Commands Together
- Doing Math
- Filesystem Structures
- Determining Disk Usage With df and du
- cron
- The crontab Command
- crontab Format
- /etc/cron.*/ Directories
- Sending Email with mailx
Module 4: REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
- Searching Inside Files
- Regular Expression Overview
- Regular Expressions
- RE Character Classes
- Regex Quantifiers
- RE Parenthesis
- The Streaming Editor
Module 5: BRANCHING AND LOOPING
- Exit Status
- Comparisons with test
- Conditional Statements
- Flow Control: case
- Flow Control: while and until Loops
- The for Loop
- Flow Control: select
Module 6: DATA MUNGING
- Text Processing with Awk
- Text Sorting
- Duplicate Removal Utility
- Extracting Columns of Text
Module 7: SECURITY, WHITESPACE, AND OTHER GOTCHAS
- Gotcha: Quoting Variables
- Gotcha: Locales
- Gotchas: Maximum Command Length
- Gotcha: Whitespace in for Loops
- Reading Files with while
- Gotcha: $IFS
- Gotcha: Printing in .bashrc
- Gotcha: Aliases
Module A: CHALLENGE
- Apache Configuration Files
- httpd.conf VirtualHost Configuration
Module B: EMACS
- Emacs
- The Emacs Interface
- Basic Emacs
- More Emacs Commands
Module C: THE SECURE SHELL (SSH)
- ssh and sshd Configuration
- Accessing Remote Shells
- Transferring Files
- SSH Key Management
Outline
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- Module 1 LAB TASKS
- Shell Variables
- Shell Meta-Characters
- Command Substitution
- Module 2 LAB TASKS
- Aliases
- Bash Login Scripts
- Create “userinfo” and “sysinfo” functions
- Module 3 LAB TASKS
- Disk and Filesystem Usage
- Redirection and Pipes
- Module 4 LAB TASKS
- Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
- Extended Regular Expressions
- Using Regular Expressions With sed
- Module 5 LAB TASKS
- Reporting User Statistics
- Monitoring Filesystem Usage
- Module 6 LAB TASKS
- Create “rmhost” function
- Create “showenv” function
- Parsing Mail Server Logs
- Fixing Incorrect Files
- Module 7 LAB TASKS
- Renaming MP3 Files
- Split and Display $PATH
- A tar-based Backup
- Module A LAB TASKS
- Automated Virtual Host Provisioning
- Module B LAB TASKS
Labs
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Solid understanding of Unix-based systems and proficiency on the Unix or Linux command line.
Prerequisites
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