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Bash Scripting in Three Weeks

What It Is

An three week O'Reilly course to take you from beginner to advanced in bash scripting, and prepare you for a career writing shell scripts.

What You Need

You will need a terminal to run on, or can use katacoda

Structure

Each week is a folder in this repo, and each week contains the commands that are planned to be run (the course itself may deviate from this) in the commands folder.

Exercises

Week One

Write Simple Bash Scripts That Output Text

Bash Loops and Arguments

Bash Tests

Create a File-Reporting Application

Week Two

Write Simple Bash Scripts That Redirect Standard Output and Standard Error

Bash Subshell

Bash Here-Docs

Bash Globs and Redirection

Week Three

Bash Debugging

Waiting for Tasks to Complete

Trapping Signals in Shell Scripts

Useful Links

Bash Man Page

Bash Gotchas

Shellcheck

Explain A Shell Command To You

Regular expression exercises

Bash playground in the browser

Google Shell Style Guide

A Getting Things Done Tool In Bash

Pure Bash Bible

Bash Wiki

Discussion Of Traps

Discussion On Improving At Bash (1)

Discussion On Improving At Bash (2)

Discussion On Mastering Bash

Discussion Of Bash Pitfalls

Bash Redirections Cheat Sheet

Bash Source Code