The Web has become the face of technology and the central access point for data processing. Shell scripts cannot do everything that languages such as PHP can do on the Web, but there are many tasks for which shell scripts are ideally suited. We will explore recipes to download and parse website data, send data to forms, and automate website-usage tasks and similar activities. We can automate many activities that we perform interactively through a browser with a few lines of scripting. The functionality provided by the HTTP protocol and command-line utilities enables us to write scripts to solve many web-automation needs.
Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Overview of this book
The shell is the most powerful tool your computer provides. Despite having it at their fingertips, many users are unaware of how much the shell can accomplish.
Using the shell, you can generate databases and web pages from sets of files, automate monotonous admin tasks such as system backups, monitor your system's health and activity, identify network bottlenecks and system resource hogs, and more.
This book will show you how to do all this and much more.
This book, now in its third edition, describes the exciting new features in the newest Linux distributions to help you accomplish more than you imagine. It shows how to use simple commands to automate complex tasks, automate web interactions, download videos, set up containers and cloud servers, and even get free SSL certificates.
Starting with the basics of the shell, you will learn simple commands and how to apply them to real-world issues. From there, you'll learn text processing, web interactions, network and system monitoring, and system tuning.
Software engineers will learn how to examine system applications, how to use modern software management tools such as git and fossil for their own work, and how to submit patches to open-source projects.
Finally, you'll learn how to set up Linux Containers and Virtual machines and even run your own Cloud server with a free SSL Certificate from letsencrypt.org.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Shell Something Out
Have a Good Command
File In, File Out
Texting and Driving
Tangled Web? Not At All!
Repository Management
The Backup Plan
The Old-Boy Network
Put On the Monitors Cap
Administration Calls
Tracing the Clues
Tuning a Linux System
Containers, Virtual Machines, and the Cloud
Customer Reviews