bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users (pdf)

Description

Ideal for new and experienced users alike—including proficient Windows users and sysadmins—this updated second edition helps you solve a wide range of problems. You’ll learn ways to handle input/output, file manipulation, program execution, administrative tasks, and many other challenges. Each recipe includes one or more scripting examples and a discussion of why the solution works.

You’ll find recipes for problems including:

• Standard output and input, and executing commands
• Shell variables, shell logic, and arithmetic
• Intermediate shell tools and advanced scripting
• Searching for files with find, locate, and slocate
• Working with dates and times
• Creating shell scripts for various end-user tasks
• Working with tasks that require parsing
• Writing secure shell scripts
• Configuring and customizing bash