Table of Contents for
Learning Linux Shell Scripting

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  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Learning Linux Shell Scripting
  4. Learning Linux Shell Scripting
  5. Credits
  6. About the Author
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. About the Reviewers
  9. www.PacktPub.com
  10. Preface
  11. What you need for this book
  12. Who this book is for
  13. Conventions
  14. Reader feedback
  15. Customer support
  16. 1. Getting Started and Working with Shell Scripting
  17. Tasks done by shell
  18. Working in shell
  19. Learning basic Linux commands
  20. Our first script – Hello World
  21. Compiler and interpreter – difference in process
  22. When not to use scripts
  23. Various directories
  24. Working more effectively with shell – basic commands
  25. Working with permissions
  26. Summary
  27. 2. Drilling Deep into Process Management, Job Control, and Automation
  28. Monitoring processes using ps
  29. Process management
  30. Process monitoring tools – top, iostat, and vmstat
  31. Understanding "at"
  32. Understanding "crontab"
  33. Summary
  34. 3. Using Text Processing and Filters in Your Scripts
  35. IO redirection
  36. Pattern matching with the vi editor
  37. Pattern searching using grep
  38. Summary
  39. 4. Working with Commands
  40. Command substitution
  41. Command separators
  42. Logical operators
  43. Pipes
  44. Summary
  45. 5. Exploring Expressions and Variables
  46. Working with environment variables
  47. Working with read-only variables
  48. Working with command line arguments (special variables, set and shift, getopt)
  49. Understanding getopts
  50. Understanding default parameters
  51. Working with arrays
  52. Summary
  53. 6. Neat Tricks with Shell Scripting
  54. The here document and the << operator
  55. The here string and the <<< operator
  56. File handling
  57. Debugging
  58. Summary
  59. 7. Performing Arithmetic Operations in Shell Scripts
  60. Using the let command for arithmetic
  61. Using the expr command for arithmetic
  62. Binary, octal, and hex arithmetic operations
  63. A floating-point arithmetic
  64. Summary
  65. 8. Automating Decision Making in Scripts
  66. Understanding the test command
  67. Conditional constructs – if else
  68. Switching case
  69. Implementing simple menus with select
  70. Looping with the for command
  71. Exiting from the current loop iteration with the continue command
  72. Exiting from a loop with a break
  73. Working with the do while loop
  74. Using until
  75. Piping the output of a loop to a Linux command
  76. Running loops in the background
  77. The IFS and loops
  78. Summary
  79. 9. Working with Functions
  80. Passing arguments or parameters to functions
  81. Sharing the data by many functions
  82. Declaring local variables in functions
  83. Returning information from functions
  84. Running functions in the background
  85. Creating a library of functions
  86. Summary
  87. 10. Using Advanced Functionality in Scripts
  88. Using the trap command
  89. Ignoring signals
  90. Using traps in function
  91. Running scripts or processes even if the user logs out
  92. Creating dialog boxes with the dialog utility
  93. Summary
  94. 11. System Startup and Customizing a Linux System
  95. User initialization scripts
  96. Summary
  97. 12. Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions with sed and awk
  98. sed – noninteractive stream editor
  99. Using awk
  100. Summary
  101. Index

Learning basic Linux commands

The following table lists a few basic Linux commands:

Command

Description

$ ls

This command is used to check the contents of the directory.

$ pwd

This command is used to check the present working directory.

$ mkdir work

We will work in a separate directory called work in our home directory. Use this command to create a new directory called work in the current folder.

$ cd work

This command will change our working directory to the newly created directory work.

$ pwd

This command can be used to verify whether we moved to the expected directory.

$ touch hello.sh

This command is used to create a new empty file called hello.sh in the current folder.

$ cp hello.sh bye.sh

This command is used to copy one file into another file.

This will copy hello.sh as bye.sh.

$ mv bye.sh welcome.sh

This command is used to rename a file. This will rename bye.sh as welcome.sh.

$ ll

This command will display detailed information about files.

$ mv welcome.sh .welcome.sh

$ ls

Let's see some magic. Rename the file using the mv command and the run the ls command.

Now, the ls command will not display our file .welcome.sh. That file gets hidden. Any filename or directory name starting with "." (dot) becomes hidden.

$ ls -a

This command is used to see hidden files.

$ rm .welcolme.sh

This command is used to delete the file.

Note

If we delete any file from GUI such as Graphical User Interface, then it will be moved to the /home/user/.local/share/Trash/files/ all deleted files folder.