Linux Bash Shell Scripting: A Practical way of Learning

Nunua Sasa

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Learning is important but most important is how to explore it. This course is designed in such a way that you can learn as well as explore the entire course module with various industrial projects.

Practical approach to learn and explore the shell scripting with various industrial projects

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Introduction of Shell Programming

• What is Bash Shell?

• Types of Shell available in Linux

• About Shell Scripting

• Bash Shell Startup Scripts

• User’s Home Directory – .bash_profile, .bashrc & .bash_logout

• Shebang

• Create a simple Shell Script

• Setting up permissions on a script

• Debug a Script

The Shell Variables & Watafiti bado hawajui ni mifumo gani inayosababisha shinikizo la damu kuongezeka polepole

• Bash Variables

• Environmental Variables

• System Variables

• Assign values to shell variables

• Customize the bash shell environments

• set, env & export command

• Rules for naming variable name

• Simple Script using echo command

• Quoting

• There are three Type of quoting

• The double quote (“)

• The single quote (tumia herufi ya kwanza ya neno)

• The Backslash ()

• User’s Input via Keyboard

• Read Command

• IFS

• Practice Lab Session

Arithmetic Operations

• Performing Arithmetic Operations

• Create an integer Variable

• Create the Constants Variable

• Path name expansion

• Wildcards [*], ?, [..] na kadhalika

• Unda & use aliases

• Practice Lab Sessions

Industrial Project to Completely Automate the Pre-validation report

• A Shell Script to collect required information from a server

• The Bash Color

• Writing Color Text

• Various Color Codes for Foreground & Background Text

• Lab Session on Bash Color

• Script to fetch the system information i.e system_details

• Schedule the script via cron

• Final Script to fetch the environment report on a single click

• Lab Session

Conditional Statements (Kufanya maamuzi)

• Overview of conditional execution

• What is Condition?

• Boolean value (Kweli & Uongo)

• If else statement

• Lab Session on if..else..

• if..elif..else..fi statement

• test command

• Logical AND &&

• Logical OR !!

• The exit status of a command

• Numeric Comparison

• String Comparison

• File Attributes Comparison

• Shell Command line parameters

• Positional parameters via special shell variable $1, $2, $3,…,$N.

• Practice Lab Session

Bash Loops

• Overview of loop statement

• for loop statement

• Lab on for loop

• for loop using C like Syntax

• for loop using command line arguments

• Nested for loop statement

• Chessboard using nested loop statement

• While loop statement

• Lab Session – read a text file line-by-line or using IFS

• infinite while loop

• case statement

• Lab session on case statement

• Create a simple menu driven program or automation tool Using Case Statement

• Industrial Project

• Discussed various scripts using for or while loop

Shell Redirection & Process Management

• Input Output Redirection in Linux

• Lab Session on redirection

• Pipelines in Linux

• tee command

• file descriptor (fd) to file for output

• file descriptor (fd) to file for input

• file descriptor (fd) for reading & kuandika

• Practice Lab Session

• Overview of a Process

• Foreground & background Process

• Various Stats of a process

• Lab Session

Kazi

• Defining functions

• Displaying functions

• Nested functions

• Lab Session – writing functions

• Calling functions

• Local & global variables

• Passing arguments into a function

• return statement

• Practice Lab Sessions

AWK

• Introduction Awk

• Pattern matching

• User defined variables in awk

• Awk pre-processing

• Awk post-processing

• Practice Lab Session

SED Stream Editor

• Utangulizi

• Replacing or substituting string.

• Replacing the nth occurrence of a pattern in a line

• Replacing all the occurrence of the pattern in a line

• Changing the slash (/) mgawanyiko

• Kutumia & as the matched string

• Duplicating the replaced line with /p flag

• Replacing string on a specific line number

• Replacing string on a range of lines

• Replace on a lines which matches a pattern

• Deleting lines

• Add a line after a match

• Add a line before a match

• Last Lecture