Linux Bash Shell Scripting: A Practical way of Learning

Practical approach to learn and explore the shell scripting with various industrial projects

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Last Updated: 2022-04-25 07:04:20 English Course Type: Self Learning

Overview about various shells in Unix Based Operating Systems
The Shell Variables & Environment
Arithmetic Operations
Industrial Project to Completely Automate the Pre-validation report

Learning is important but most important is how to explore it. This course is designed in such a way that you can learn as well as explore the entire course module with various industrial projects.

Practical approach to learn and explore the shell scripting with various industrial projects

Course Content

Introduction of Shell Programming

What is Bash Shell?
Types of Shell available in Linux
About Shell Scripting
Bash Shell Startup Scripts
User’s Home Directory - .bash_profile, .bashrc & .bash_logout
Shebang
Create a simple Shell Script
Setting up permissions on a script
Debug a Script

The Shell Variables & Environment

Bash Variables
Environmental Variables
System Variables
Assign values to shell variables
Customize the bash shell environments
set, env & export command
Rules for naming variable name
Simple Script using echo command
Quoting
There are three Type of quoting
The double quote (")
The single quote (')
The Backslash (\)
User's Input via Keyboard
Read Command
IFS
Practice Lab Session

Arithmetic Operations

Performing Arithmetic Operations
Create an integer Variable
Create the Constants Variable
Path name expansion
Wildcards [*], ?, [..] etc
Create & use aliases
Practice Lab Sessions

Industrial Project to Completely Automate the Pre-validation report

A Shell Script to collect required information from a server
The Bash Color
Writing Color Text
Various Color Codes for Foreground & Background Text
Lab Session on Bash Color
Script to fetch the system information i.e system_details
Schedule the script via cron
Final Script to fetch the environment report on a single click
Lab Session

Conditional Statements (Decision Making)

Overview of conditional execution
What is Condition?
Boolean value (True & False)
If else statement
Lab Session on if..else..
if..elif..else..fi statement
test command
Logical AND &&
Logical OR !!
The exit status of a command
Numeric Comparison
String Comparison
File Attributes Comparison
Shell Command line parameters
Positional parameters via special shell variable $1, $2, $3,...,$N.
Practice Lab Session
Last lecture

PC or Laptop with internet Connection

IT professionals across a broad range of disciplines who need to perform essentials administration tasks and automation.
Graduate Students and also for those who are looking for a job in Automation using Shell Scripting in Linux & wants to get hands-on practical experience on Automation & build up a base on Shell Scripting..

Section 1 : Introduction 10 Lectures 01:08:27
Lecture 1 :
What is Linux Shell? Preview
Lecture 2 :
Types of shells available in Linux
Lecture 3 :
About Shell Scripting
Lecture 4 :
Overview of Bash Shell
Lecture 5 :
Userâ€™s Home Directory - .bash_profile, .bashrc & .bash_logout
Lecture 6 :
Practice Lab Session - 1
Lecture 7 :
Practice Lab Session - 2
Lecture 8 :
Create a simple shell script
Lecture 9 :
Debug a script
Lecture 10 :
About the Course Module
Section 2 : The Shell Variables & Environment 10 Lectures 01:01:57
Lecture 1 :
Bash Variables
Lecture 2 :
Environmental Variables
Lecture 3 :
System Variables
Lecture 4 :
Practice Lab Session
Lecture 5 :
Script to collect system information using echo command only
Lecture 6 :
Quoting and their types
Lecture 7 :
The Backslash (/)
Lecture 8 :
Getting User Input Via Keyboard
Lecture 9 :
read command
Lecture 10 :
Use of IFS
Section 3 : Arithmetic Operations 6 Lectures 00:34:17
Lecture 1 :
Performing Arithmetic Operations
Lecture 2 :
Create an Integer Variable
Lecture 3 :
Create the Constants Variable
Lecture 4 :
Path name expansions
Lecture 5 :
Wildcards
Lecture 6 :
Aliases
Section 4 : Industrial Project to Automate the Pre-validation report 7 Lectures 00:52:04
Lecture 1 :
Overview of the Industrial Project
Lecture 2 :
Bash Colors
Lecture 3 :
Lab Session on bash colors
Lecture 4 :
Create an Automation Script - 1
Lecture 5 :
Create an Automation Script - 2
Lecture 6 :
Create an Automation Script - 3
Lecture 7 :
Create an Automation Script - 4
Section 5 : Conditional Statements (Decision Making) 15 Lectures 01:23:08
Lecture 1 :
Overview of conditional execution
Lecture 2 :
if else statement syntax
Lecture 3 :
Lab Session on if..else..
Lecture 4 :
Lab Session on if..elif..else..statements
Lecture 5 :
test command
Lecture 6 :
Lab session on test conditions - 1
Lecture 7 :
Lab session on test conditions - 2
Lecture 8 :
exit status of a command
Lecture 9 :
Lab on exit status - 1
Lecture 10 :
Lab on exit status - 2
Lecture 11 :
Numeric, String comparison
Lecture 12 :
File attributes comparison
Lecture 13 :
command line arguments
Lecture 14 :
positional parameters via special shell variable $1, $2, $3,...,$9.
Lecture 15 :
Last Lecture...

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Hi there, my name is Shikhar Verma And I love making complex technical topics easy to understand. I have been in the IT Industry for more than 12 years and I had started my career as a Unix and Linux System Engineer in 2005 and currently working as solution architect in multinational company and also a professional IT trainer. My passion is to work in an environment where my technical skills and experience is put to proper use for the prospective growth of company & his career.Â Â And I'm here on Udemy to teach what I know in an approachable way. I started teaching courses in 2017, and have taught over 20,000 students. I am grateful every day with being able to connect with so many students in almost every country around the world. Â Â Primary Skills are Linux, Red Hat Cluster, Ansible, Shell Scripting, AWS Cloud (Amazon Web Services), Linux Cluster, Perl etc