Linux Bash Shell Scripting: A Practical way of Learning

A practical approach to learning and exploring shell scripting with various industrial projects.

Created by: Shikhar Verma☆100K+ Students Globally
Cloud & DevOps Solutions Architect | IT Trainer & Educator

What Will I Learn?

• Overview about various shells in Unix Based Operating Systems
• Introduction of Shell Programming
• Bash Shell Startup Scripts
• Shebang
• Debug a script
• The Shell Variables & Environment
• Bash, Environmental & System Variables
• set, env & export command
• Quoting and their types
• Performing Arithmetic Operations
• Create an integer & constants Variable
• Wildcard & Path name expansions
• Industrial Project to Completely Automate the Pre-validation report
• Conditional Statements (Decision Making)
• If else statement & if..elif..else..fi statement
• Logical AND &&, OR !!
• test command & exit status of a command
• Numeric, String & File Attributes Comparison
• Positional parameters via special shell variable $1, $2, $3,...,$N
• Bash Loops - for loop statement
• for loop using C like Syntax, passing arguments, nested loop
• Chessboard using nested loop statement
• While loop statement
• Case statement
• Create a simple menu driven program or automation tool Using Case Statement
• Shell Redirection & Process Management
• Input Output Redirection in Linux
• file descriptor (fd) to file
• Foreground & background Process
• Defining functions
• Nested functions
• Writing functions, Calling functions
• Local & global variables
• Passing arguments into a function
• Return statement
• Practice Lab Sessions
• About AWK
• Pattern matching in AWK
• Pre & post processing in AWK
• User defined variables in AWK

Requirements

• PC or Laptop with internet Connection

Target audience

• IT professionals across a broad range of disciplines who need to perform essential administration tasks and automation.
• Graduate Students and also for those who are looking for a job in Automation using Shell Scripting in Linux & wants to get hands-on practical experience on Automation & build up a base on Shell Scripting..