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Mastering Linux Shell Scripting

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

6h36m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

Mastering Linux Shell Scripting has been written for Linux administrators who want to automate tasks in their daily lives, saving time and effort. You’ll need to have command-line experience and be familiar with the tasks that you need to automate.

Book content

chapters 6h36m total length

What and why of scripting with BASH

Creating interactive scripts

Conditional statements

Creating Code Snippets for vim

Alternative syntax to test

Using loop structures in scripts

Using functions to create modular script

Introduction to sed, the stream editor

Apache Virtual Host built from scripts

Introduction to AWK

Creating reports from logs

A Better Lastlog reporting on User and Password Aging

Using PERL as a BASH Scripting Alternative

Using Python as a BASH Scripting Alternative

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