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Mastering Linux Shell Scripting - Second Edition

By : Mokhtar Ebrahim, Andrew Mallett
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Book Image

Mastering Linux Shell Scripting - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Mokhtar Ebrahim, Andrew Mallett

Overview of this book

In this book, you’ll discover everything you need to know to master shell scripting and make informed choices about the elements you employ. Grab your favorite editor and start writing your best Bash scripts step by step. Get to grips with the fundamentals of creating and running a script in normal mode, and in debug mode. Learn about various conditional statements' code snippets, and realize the power of repetition and loops in your shell script. You will also learn to write complex shell scripts. This book will also deep dive into file system administration, directories, and system administration like networking, process management, user authentications, and package installation and regular expressions. Towards the end of the book, you will learn how to use Python as a BASH Scripting alternative. By the end of this book, you will know shell scripts at the snap of your fingers and will be able to automate and communicate with your system with keyboard expressions.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Chapter 11

  1. 0 lines

Because there is a period after the word awesome, if you want to print that line, you can use the following command:

$ awk '/awesome\.$/{print $0}' myfile
  1. 2 lines

Since we search for the line that contains the word scripting. With a period after it followed by any text, this pattern only exists in two lines because the third line doesn't contain a period after the word.

  1. 3 lines

As we used the question mark that means the character class is not a must for the pattern to match.

  1. Nothing

As we used the pipe symbol, which is an ERE character, and as we used sed, we must use the -r option for sed to turn the extended engine on.