The tutorials in this series are created using BASH version 4.1.10 on Ubuntu 12.04. Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter. It offers functionalities such as Command line editing, Unlimited size command history, Job Control, Shell Functions and Aliases, Indexed arrays of unlimited size, Integer arithmetic. Read more
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Outline: Introduction to BASH Shell Scripting The bash shell Bash Shell Script
Outline: Basics of Shell Scripting System variables User defined variables Accepting user input via keyboard
Outline: Command Line arguments and quoting Command Line arguments Single quote Double quote Backslash
Outline: Globbing and export statements Globbing The export statement
Outline: Array Operations in BASH Declaring an Array and Assigning values Initializing an Array during declaration To find length of Bash Array and length of nth element ..
Outline: More on Arrays Extraction of Array elements Search and replace in an Array element To Add an element to an Array To remove an Element from an Array Shell..
Outline: Conditional execution Test Syntax of test if...then Bash script example for if...then if...then...else...if if-else with a password program
Outline: More on If loops Nested if Nested if with flowgraph Nested If-else with Name and Password verification program Multilevel if-then-else Multilevel if-then..
Outline: Logical Operations Logical AND syntax Logical AND workflow Logical OR Logical OR workflow Logical OR and AND with string comparison program Logical ..
Outline: Bash comparison- Arithmetic comparison Arithmetic comparison -eq(equal to) -ne(not equal to) Demonstration of -eq and -ne with a word count program(Used: `wc ..
Outline: String and File Attributes comparison in BASH String comparison String comparison using == operator String comparison using != operator Simple program of us..
Outline: Conditional Loops The for loop statement for loop with three expression syntax for loop with sequence/range syntax flow of for loop program The while loo..
Outline: More on Loops A loop within a loop Outer for loop Nested for loop Inner for loop Syntax of nested for loop Finding files in the directories using ne..
Outline: Case statement in BASH Importance of case statement Syntax of case(With both single and multiple options) Work-flow of case statement Creating menus using cas..
Outline: Using File Descriptors Introduction on fd Assign the file descriptor (fd) to file for output(exec fd > filename) Explained using an example of 'date'..
Outline: Basics of functions Writing your first shell function Displaying functions Writing functions Function defintion Calling functions Workflow of functi..
Outline: More on Functions Local variable in a function Global variable in a function Scope of local and global variables Demonstration of local and global variable by..
Outline: Arrays & functions Arrays & functions Usability of array by different function call Array example Use of return in a function Use of exit in a function ..
Outline: Advance topics in a function Source command Source command usage example Brief description on background function Illustration of bg function Use of Jobs c..
Outline: Recursive function Recursive function meaning and uses Illustration of recursive function(Example used: Factorial of a number) Debugging of bash script(bash -x fil..