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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we covered regular expressions and the regex engines BRE and ERE. We learned how to define patterns for them.

We learned how to write these patterns for sed, AWK, and grep.

Also, we saw how the special character classes make it easy to match sets of characters.

We saw how to use the powerful ERE patterns and how to group expressions.

Finally, we saw how to use the grep tool and how to define BRE and ERE patterns.

In the next two chapters, we will see some practical examples for AWK.