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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 1

  1. The error is in the second line: There should be no spaces in the variable declaration.
#!/bin/bash 
var1="Welcome to bash scripting ..." 
echo $var1 
  1. The result will be Tuesday because the array is zero based.
  2. There are two errors here: the first error is the space in the variable declaration and the second error is the usage of single quotes where we should use backticks instead.

Solution:

#!/bin/bash files='ls -la' echo $files
  1. The value of b variable will be c and the value of c will be a.

Since we didn't use dollar signs in the assignment lines, the variable will take the character value instead of the integer value.