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Learning Shell Scripting with Zsh

Learning Shell Scripting with Zsh

By : Gaston Festari
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Learning Shell Scripting with Zsh

Learning Shell Scripting with Zsh

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By: Gaston Festari
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Overview of this book

A step-by-step tutorial that will teach you, through real-world examples, how to configure and use zsh and its various features. If you are a system administrator, developer, or computer professional involved with UNIX who are looking to improve on their daily tasks involving the UNIX shell, Learning Shell Scripting with zsh will be great for you. It’s assumed that you have some familiarity with an UNIX command-line interface and feel comfortable with editors such as Emacs or vi.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Learning Shell Scripting with Zsh
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Learning Shell Scripting with Zsh
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
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Preface
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Preface
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Getting Started
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Getting Started
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Installing zsh
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First run
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The shell prompt
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Summary
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Alias and History
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Alias and History
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Working with aliases
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Expansion
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Working with history
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Summary
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Advanced Editing
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Advanced Editing
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Zsh line editor
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Advanced editing
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Don't call them widgets
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Working with regions
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Summary
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Globbing
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Globbing
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Quoting your strings
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Getting started with Globbing
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Extended Globbing
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The zmv function
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Summary
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Completion
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Completion
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Getting started with completion
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Command correction
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Function definitions
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Summary
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Tips and Tricks
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Tips and Tricks
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Main resources
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Helping tips
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Other projects
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Index
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Index

Summary

In this chapter we had a look at some of the most prominent time-saving features of zsh. The purpose of this entry in our shell adventure was to start accomplishing more by typing less. Thus, this chapter focused on understanding aliases, how they work, and how to roll our own keystroke-saving definitions in a way that won't cause more trouble than what they attempt to solve.

We then moved onto expansions, learning the ways of arithmetic and brace expansion in order to make command-line related chores feel more like a breeze. Finally, we took a closer look at how to work with history, going beyond the keyboard arrow-mashing approach and learning history expansion and event designators in order to avoid repeating ourselves into oblivion.

By now you should have a fairly solid notion regarding the following:

  • Aliases: We learned what an alias is and how to define a useful shortcut for our commands together with a handful of tips to start your collection.

  • Parameter expansion, command substitution...

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