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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

Overview of this book

The Raspberry Pi Zero, one of the most inexpensive, fully-functional computers available, is a powerful and revolutionary product developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Zero opens up a new world for the makers out there. This book will give you expertise with the Raspberry Pi Zero, providing all the necessary recipes that will get you up and running. In this book, you will learn how to prepare your own circuits rather than buying the expensive add–ons available in the market. We start by showing you how to set up and manage the Pi Zero and then move on to configuring the hardware, running it with Linux, and programming it with Python scripts. Later, we integrate the Raspberry Pi Zero with sensors, motors, and other hardware. You will also get hands-on with interesting projects in media centers, IoT, and more.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating our first shell program and automating a process


The Bourne Again shell, or bash, is a common terminal for Linux users to control their computers. One of the great things about it is it can be written into longer scripts, which do multiple things, or make decisions based on certain information, which makes what would be a long, manual task virtually effortless. Let's go over a practical example of writing a shell script to make our life easier.

Getting ready

The terminal window you've been working in is your shell. In fact, every command you type is more or less a one-line script! We'll only need a connection and our favorite text editor.

If you are still in the ch3 directory, you are ready to go. If not, you can get there with this:

cd /home/pi/share/ch3/

How to do it...

Here is another recipe we can use later, and it fulfils a practical purpose. We're going to take a reading on the Raspberry Pi Zero's built-in temperature sensor and output the value with the time. We'll save this...