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Linux Shell Scripting Essentials

You're reading from   Linux Shell Scripting Essentials Learn shell scripting to solve complex shell-related problems and to efficiently automate your day-to-day tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785284441
Length 282 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sinny Kumari Sinny Kumari
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Linux Shell Scripting Essentials
Credits
About the Author
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Preface
1. The Beginning of the Scripting Journey FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Hands-on with I/O, Redirection Pipes, and Filters 3. Effective Script Writing 4. Modularizing and Debugging 5. Customizing the Environment 6. Working with Files 7. Welcome to the Processes 8. Scheduling Tasks and Embedding Languages in Scripts Index

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After reading this chapter, you should now able to write a shell script that can be easy to maintain and modify by others. Now, you know how to use an existing shell script library in your own script by using the source command. You also got familiarity with fixing errors and bugs in a shell script by making use of the different debugging techniques. You should also know how to write a script by taking command line arguments and providing bash completion features for it.

In the next chapter, we will see how to view, change, create, and delete environment variables in order to meet the requirement of running our applications.

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