LinuxCBT BASH Edition is a great product to help aspiring Linux Systems Administrators to develop foundation GNU/Linux Scripting skills. All of the subsequent LinuxCBT Scripting products, Perl, Python & PHP, are premised on the foundations of the basic shell environment. LinuxCBT BASH Edition prepares you or your organization for successfully automating Linux environments using the default shell; BASH. Recommended Prerequisites: * LinuxCBT Classic or Debian GNU/Linux Editions - Operating System (OS) Base * Open mind & determination to master Linux Scripting Solutions - BASH * Access to a GNU/Linux-based PC to perform exercises in LinuxCBT BASH Edition Bourne Again Shell (BASH) Scripting     * Introduction to BASH Command Line Interface (CLI)           o Identify BASH installation & key configuration files on RedHat & Debian GNU/Linux distros                 + .profile/.bash_profile/.bashrc/.bash_history            o Identify & use common built-in BASH commands (pwd,cd,set,unset,export,source,etc.)           o BASH Command-line Expansion                 + Brace Expansion                 + Tilde Expansion                 + Parameter & variable Expansion                 + Command Substitution            o BASH Reserved words           o BASH History identification & configuration           o Aliases (ls,du,df,rm,cp)           o Backticks - command expansion & execution           o BASH Prompt configuration           o Command chaining           o Error level/Return code (Command Exit Status) identification                 + Test return 0                 + Test return 126 - permissions                 + Test return 127 - command not found            o Conditional execution of subsequent commands (&&,||)      *     * Redirection           o Standard Input                 + Direct input from Standard Input                 + Redirect input from a file            o Standard Output                 + Direct output to Standard Output                 + Redirect output to a file                 + Append Standard Output to an existing file            o Standard Error                 + Redirect Standard Error            o Input/Output (I/O) Redirection                 + Pipes                 + Sequential execution via pipes            o Quoting & Escaping                 + single quotes preserves whitespace, double quotes don't                 + Full-quoting - single quotes - all enclosed values are literal                 + Partial quoting - double quotes - all enclosed values are literal except "$, \, `"                 + \ is the escape character used to treat following strings literally      *     * BASH Scripting           o Basic Script definition (hello world), permissions modification & execution           o Internal BASH variables           o Global Variable definition           o Function definition           o Local Variable definition - function scope           o BASH Arrays           o Loops                 + For                 + While                 + Until            o Menu creation using Select           o Job control - Foreground/Background processing           o Conditionals - If-Then-Else - Testing           o Case - Concise Conditional Branching           o Positional Parameters      *     * BASH Script Definition           o Create BASH script to move multiple files to new names defined by positional parameters           o Create script to monitor directory for file changes and report the differences via E-mail to Administrator           o Create script to monitor directory size and report threshold encroachment to Administrator via E-mail           o Define script to parse logs for keywords and notify the Administrator via E-mail           o Create script to monitor network connectivity between hosts and report outages to Admin via E-mail           o Define script to monitor process, restart if fails, and E-mail Administrator at defineable limits           o Create script to backup sub-directories using Tar & Gzip, define threshold, and SSH file to remote host           o Log the output of BASH scripts to a Syslog-like format Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/145462421/CD1_BASH.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/145462448/CD1_BASH.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/145462103/CD1_BASH.part3.rar