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Bourne Again Shell (BASH) Scripting

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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

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