Bash Shell Programming - Course Syllabus
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An intensive course for Linux users wishing to write or maintain shell scripts based upon the new standard shell, Bash.
- The Bash Shell
- Command line usage, options & aliases
- Command histories, editing,
- Redirection of I/O, pipes and filters
- Startup files
- Shell Programming
- Features and construction, executing scripts
- Variable usage, types, built-in variables
- Arithmetic expressions
- Control flow; if, for, while, until, case, select
- Command substitution
- Signal catching
- Shell functions
- Further I/O redirection
- Variable substitution, read
- Arrays
- Pattern matching
- Regular expressions
- Here documents
- Overlaying (exec)
- Reparsing of variables (eval)
- Typeset
- Code blocks
- Command line option processing
- Two way pipes and coroutines
Notes
- All participants receive copies of all slide material and a pocket reference guide.
- Exercises are provided along with worked solutions.
- The Course is regularly updated to include new material.
- Emphasis on different aspects will change according to the participants interests.
- The Course is applicable to Korn shells supplied with many versions of Unix and also with the MKS Toolkit shell and the public domain Korn Shell (pdksh). The course is generally compatible with the GNU shell bash as well.
- A basic knowledge of Unix is a pre-requisite.
- The length of the Course is normally two days.