This is the last summary of this book and the last topic was figlet; and it was not just a coincidence. What we tried to make clear through all the chapters is that Bash is fun. Did we touch every possible topic and example? No, not at all, and this is the greatest thing of all: we have so many things to see, so many ways to bend Bash to do unthinkable tasks. Just think about something and then try the shell: in most cases a bit of imagination will find a creative way to overcome obstacles and to chuckle about what has been done. This book is named Mastering Bash, but no book can exhaust the massive amount of things that we can discover about this shell. So, this is not a landing point, this is just a step further, maybe higher than usual, but just a step in an ongoing journey in our favorite environment, in our beloved GNU/Linux operating system.
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Overview of this book
System administration is an everyday effort that involves a lot of tedious tasks, and devious pits. Knowing your environment is the key to unleashing the most powerful solution that will make your life easy as an administrator, and show you the path to new heights. Bash is your Swiss army knife to set up your working or home environment as you want, when you want.
This book will enable you to customize your system step by step, making your own real, virtual, home out of it. The journey will take you swiftly through the basis of the shell programming in Bash to more interesting and challenging tasks. You will be introduced to one of the most famous open source monitoring systems—Nagios, and write complex programs with it in any languages. You’ll see how to perform checks on your sites and applications.
Moving on, you’ll discover how to write your own daemons so you can create your services and take advantage of inter-process communication to let your scripts talk to each other. So, despite these being everyday tasks, you’ll have a lot of fun on the way. By the end of the book, you will have gained advanced knowledge of Bash that will help you automate routine tasks and manage your systems.
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Let's Start Programming
Operators
Quoting and Escaping
Menus, Arrays, and Functions
Iterations
Plug into the Real World
We Want to Chat
Subshells, Signals, and Job Controls
Lets Make a Process Chat
Living as a Daemon
Remote Connections over SSH
Its Time for a Timer
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