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Learn Bash the Hard Way

Master Bash Using The Only Method That Works

Ian Miell

This book will train you to be a master in bash, a technology that's more often used than understood.

It uses the 'Hard Way' method, the best way to develop your skills.

Based on many years of experience, the book takes you through what you need to know to understand what's going on when you look at others' bash scripts, and write your own.

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About the Book

This book takes you through knowledge essential to a mastery of bash. It is divided into four parts:

1) Core Bash

Core foundational concepts essential for understanding bash on the command line.

Areas covered:

  • globbing
  • variables
  • functions
  • pipes and redirects
  • scripts and startup

2) Bash Scripting

                

Gets your bash scripting skills up to scratch.

Covers:

  • command substitution
  • tests
  • loops
  • exit codes

3) Tips and techniques

                                                          

A primer on commonly-used techniques and features that are useful to know about.

Covers:

  • the prompts
  • here docs
  • history
  • shortcuts

4) Advanced Bash

Building on the first three chapters, and introducing some more advanced features, this chapters takes your bash skills beyond the norm.

  • signals and traps
  • debugging
  • string manipulation
  • a real-world application 

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Ian Miell

Ian Miell has over twenty years' experience in IT, writing, running, architecting, and maintaining software for some of the world's busiest systems.

He has written the book 'Docker in Practice' (published by Manning), 'Learn Bash the Hard Way' (published on Leanpub), as well as various training courses and videos.

He blogs about his experiences at https://zwischenzugs.com

Leanpub Podcast

Episode 85

An Interview with Ian Miell

Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Learn Bash the Hard Way

  1. Introduction
  2. Structure

Part I - Core Bash

  1. What is Bash?
  2. Note
  3. Unpicking the Shell: Globbing and Quoting
  4. Note
  5. Note
  6. Note
  7. Variables in Bash
  8. Functions in Bash
  9. Pipes and redirects
  10. Scripts and Startups

Part II - Scripting Bash

  1. Command Substitution and Evaluation
  2. Exit Codes
  3. Tests
  4. Loops
  5. The set Builtin
  6. Process Substitution
  7. Subshells
  8. Note
  9. Internal Field Separator
  10. Note

Part III - Bash Features

  1. Readline
  2. Terminal Codes and Non-Standard Characters
  3. Note
  4. The Prompt
  5. Note
  6. Here Documents
  7. History
  8. Bash in Practice

Part IV - Advanced Bash

  1. Job Control
  2. Traps and Signals
  3. Advanced Variables
  4. Note - next commands require bash version 4.x!
  5. String Manipulation
  6. Note - next commands require bash version 4.x!
  7. Debugging Bash Scripts
  8. Note
  9. Autocomplete
  10. Note - requires bash version 4.x!
  11. Example Bash Script
  12. Finished!

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