Complete Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial with Practical Exercises and Examples.
Description
This course will be beneficial for anyone who is interested in automating tasks or creating simple programs on a Linux operating system. Some examples of people who might benefit from learning shell scripting include: System administrators will be able to automate system maintenance tasks, such as backups and server updates. Data scientists will be able to learn about pre-process and organize data sets, or to automate data analysis pipelines. Web developers will be able to use to automate the deployment of web applications or to set up a local development environment. DevOps professionals will be able to use to automate the build, test, and deployment processes of software projects.
In this course we will cover the following:
Section 1: Course Overview
- Course Overview
Section 2: Lab Setup
- Installation of Virtual Box
- Download & Installation of Linux(CentOS) on VirtualBox Step by Step
- Download, Install and connect through putty
Section 3: Shell Scripting Standards
- The Shell
- What is Shell Scripting?
- Naming Convention for Shell Script
- Shell Scripting Format
- File Permissions in Linux
- How to Run a Shell Script
- Basic Commands used in Shell Scripting
- Listing files and understanding LS output
- Text Editor vi Introduction
- Quiz
Section 4: Shell Scripting Basic Concepts
- Creating first script – Hello World
- Defining variable
- Arithmetic Expressions in Shell Scripting
- String Manipulation in Shell Scripting
- String Comparisons in Shell Scripting
- Read and Echo (Input/Output) statements
- Relational Operators in Shell Scripting
- Conditional Statements (Decision Making)
- Case Statement
- For loop in Shell Scripting
- Do-while in Shell Scripting
- Until Loop in Shell Scripting
- Select Loop in Shell Scripting
- Infinite Loops, and Sleeping
- Exit Status in Shell Scripting
- Special Variables in Shell Scripting
- Quiz
Section 5: Working with Functions, Arrays and String
- Functions in Shell Scripting
- Passing Parameters to a Function
- Nested Functions
- Indexed array in Shell Scripting
- Associative array in shell Scripting
- String Concatenation
- Extract a substring from a string
- Nested Loop in Shell Scripting
- Nested Conditions in Shell Scripting
- Shifting in Shell Scripting
- Quiz
Section 6: Real Life Scripting
- Searching and Extracting Data from Files
- Shell script to delete oldest files and folders
- Shell Script to Backup Files in Directory
- How to use Loops in a file system?
- Check Users Logged In, Ordered by Date, or IP Address
- How to trace log messages in a shell script?
- How to automate user account creation?
- How to check users not logged in?
- How to track the process’s status and terminate it?
- How to add and delete data from Inventory?
- How to reuse one script information to another?
- How to check the status and connectivity of remote hosts?
- How to schedule script through cron job?
- How to check disk space status?
- How to create and verify created files?
- How to create script on run time?
- Store data on live server database
- Get data from live database server
- Quiz
Section 7: Additional Content
- The Linux Directory Structure
- Absolute vs relative path of a directory
- Creating files and directories by command line
- Changing File Permissions
- Modify File Ownership for user and group
- Copying Directories and Files
- Removing Directories and Files
- head and tail commands
- Wild Cards
- Grep
- Pipe
- Shell Aliases
- Compressing and archiving files (using tar, gzip)
- Explanation of Tab Key Completion
- Find your IP address in linux
- User and group administration by command
- Ping command
- Handouts
Who this course is for:
- This course will be beneficial for anyone who is interested in automating tasks or creating simple programs on a Linux operating system.
