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Linux System Engineer: Bash Shell Scripting for Automation

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Overview

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Bash scripting for automation
  • What you will need
1. Introduction to Linux Scripting
  • Introduction to bash
  • What makes a shell script a shell script?
  • Using bash debugging mode
  • Bash variable scope
2. Using Outside Data in a Script
  • Positional arguments
  • Load files using while read
  • Load files into arrays with mapfile
  • Prompt for input
  • Pipe data into a script
  • Process shell options
3. Outputting Data from a Script
  • Saving data to files
  • Outputting to STDOUT and STDERR
4. Bash Logic
  • Conditional flow with if, then fi
  • Conditional flow with case
  • Numeric conditions
  • String conditions
  • File conditions
5. Bash Loops
  • For loop
  • While loop
6. Real-World Examples
  • Monitoring user space usage
  • Monitoring CPU usage
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Grant McWilliams

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