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The newline Guide to Bash Scripting

WELCOMEIntroduction

Introduction:

Start Here

Module 1: Introduction

Lesson 1:

About this book

Lesson 2:

Community and Code Downloads

Lesson 3:

Organization of this book

Lesson 4:

Conventions used in this book

Lesson 5:

Development environment

Lesson 6:

Acknowledgements

Lesson 7:

About the author

Module 2: Self–Help

Lesson 1:

Find Bash Keyword, Function, and Builtin Command Documentation

Lesson 2:

How to Use man bash and help to Learn About Bash Commands

Lesson 3:

How to Find Information About Bash File Commands With --help

Lesson 4:

The Best References for Bash Commands

Lesson 5:

How to Find Package Specific Bash Documentation

Lesson 6:

How to Read a Synopsis and Understand Bash Documentation

Lesson 7:

How to Use apropos to Find Bash Commands (with examples)

Module 3: Running Scripts

Lesson 1:

How to Run a Bash Script Explicitly as an Argument in Terminal

Lesson 2:

How to Run a Bash Script With a Shebang Line and the Script Path

Lesson 3:

The Simplest Way to Run a Bash Script with $PATH

Module 4: Editing Commands and Scripts

Lesson 1:

How to Use Bash Readline to Edit Commands and Scripts

Lesson 2:

How to Edit Bash Scripts in Nano and Vim

Module 5: Copying and Pasting

Lesson 1:

Copying and Pasting

Lesson 2:

How to Select Text in Linux Terminal With a Mouse

Lesson 3:

How to Copy and Paste in Linux Terminal With Keyboard Shortcuts

Lesson 4:

How to Copy and Paste Text With the xclip Bash Command

Lesson 5:

How to Copy Formatted Text as HTML From Linux Terminal

Lesson 6:

How to Paste Text in Linux Terminal Safely

Module 6: Listing Files

Lesson 1:

Listing Files

Lesson 2:

Using Linux ls Command to List Files and grep to Search for Files

Lesson 3:

How to Glob, Find Pattern Matching Files, and Run Commands

Module 7: Text

Lesson 1:

Text

Lesson 2:

How to Convert Windows Newlines For Bash With dos2unix

Lesson 3:

How to Convert Text to UTF-8 And Other Encodings in Bash Scripts

Module 8: Math

Lesson 1:

Math

Lesson 2:

How to Perform Arithmetic Expansion in Bash

Lesson 3:

How to Evaluate and Calculate Arithmetic Expressions in Bash

Lesson 4:

Best Practices for Using Variables in Bash Arithmetic

Lesson 5:

How to Write Conditional Expressions in Bash

Lesson 6:

Convert Bases in Bash to Work With Octals and Hexadecimals

Lesson 7:

How to Perform Floating Point Math With Bash bc

Module 9: Time

Lesson 1:

Time

Lesson 2:

Format Datetimes, Timestamps, and Time Zones in Bash

Lesson 3:

How to Time How Long a Bash Command Takes to Run

Lesson 4:

How to Kill Bash Commands With timeout

Module 10: Output

Lesson 1:

Output

Lesson 2:

How to Use the Bash Echo Command to Print Text in Terminal

Lesson 3:

printf vs echo - Printing Formatted Text With Newlines in Bash

Lesson 4:

Using the logger Command to Log Bash Output

Module 11: JSON

Lesson 1:

JSON

Lesson 2:

How to Use jq Command to Filter JSON in Bash

Lesson 3:

Creating

Module 12: XML

Lesson 1:

XML

Lesson 2:

Extracting an XML Value in Bash With xml_grep

Lesson 3:

Formatting and Transforming XML with XSLT

Lesson 4:

How to Create XML Files in Bash With xsltproc

Lesson 5:

Auto-Formatting

Module 13: Images

Lesson 1:

Images

Lesson 2:

How to Take Screenshots in Ubuntu Linux With Shortcuts and Bash

Lesson 3:

Resize, Convert, and Crop Pictures With ImageMagick mogrify

Lesson 4:

How to Create a Video From Images With ffmpeg

Lesson 5:

How to Create Graphs From Terminal With Graphviz

Lesson 6:

How to Remove and Edit Metadata From Photos With exif

Module 14: Archiving and Compression

Lesson 1:

Archiving and Compression

Lesson 2:

Beginner's Guide to tar Commands to Compress and Extract Files

Lesson 3:

Plain gzip

Lesson 4:

Zip

Lesson 5:

Other formats

Module 15: SSH

Lesson 1:

SSH

Lesson 2:

How to Connect to an SSH Host Interactively

Lesson 3:

How to Create and Store SSH Keys in Bash

Lesson 4:

How to Execute Bash Scripts on Remote Server Non-Interactively

Lesson 5:

How to Access an SSH Server Behind a Jump Server

Lesson 6:

How to Exit SSH and Close a Hung Connection

Module 16: From the Terminal to Production

Lesson 1:

From the Terminal to Production

Lesson 2:

The Portable Shebang Line to Run Bash Scripts Anywhere

Lesson 3:

How to Write Readable man Documentation For Your Bash Scripts

Lesson 4:

How to Build a Fail-Fast, Safe Bash Scripts

Lesson 5:

How to Check Shell Version From a Bash Script

Lesson 6:

How to Parse Bash Command Line Arguments

Lesson 7:

How to Include Files in Bash Command Line Arguments

Lesson 8:

How to Restrict Variable and Function Scope in Bash Scripts

Module 17: Fail–Fast Settings

Lesson 1:

Fail–Fast Settings

Lesson 2:

How to Exit Bash Script on Error With errexit

Lesson 3:

How to Prevent a Bash Script From Overwriting Files With noclobber

Lesson 4:

Make Bash Treat Undefined Variables as Errors With nounset

Lesson 5:

How to Set Bash pipefail to Add Exit Codes to Scripts

Lesson 6:

How to Fail a Bash Glob if it Returns no Files With failglob

Module 18: Version Control

Lesson 1:

Version Control

Lesson 2:

How to Start Using and Configure Git in Bash Terminal

Lesson 3:

How to Use Git in Bash Terminal to Push, Pull, and Commit Code

Lesson 4:

Git gud

Module 19: Quality Assurance

Lesson 1:

Quality Assurance

Lesson 2:

The Beginner's Guide to Bash Linter

Lesson 3:

How to Test Bash Scripts

Module 20: Signals

Lesson 1:

An Intro to Bash Signals: SIGINT, SIGKILL, SIGQUIT, and SIGTERM

Lesson 2:

How to Send Signals From Bash

Lesson 3:

How to Handle Signals and Errors in Bash Scripts

Module 21: Autocompletion

Lesson 1:

Autocompletion

Lesson 2:

How to Install Bash Autocompletions

Lesson 3:

How to Write an Autocompletion for a Bash Script

Module 22: Summary and Changelog

Lesson 1:

Summary

Lesson 2:

Changelog

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The newline Guide to Bash Scripting

WELCOMEIntroduction

Introduction:

Start Here

Module 1: Introduction

Lesson 1:

About this book

Lesson 2:

Community and Code Downloads

Lesson 3:

Organization of this book

Lesson 4:

Conventions used in this book

Lesson 5:

Development environment

Lesson 6:

Acknowledgements

Lesson 7:

About the author

Module 2: Self–Help

Lesson 1:

Find Bash Keyword, Function, and Builtin Command Documentation

Lesson 2:

How to Use man bash and help to Learn About Bash Commands

Lesson 3:

How to Find Information About Bash File Commands With --help

Lesson 4:

The Best References for Bash Commands

Lesson 5:

How to Find Package Specific Bash Documentation

Lesson 6:

How to Read a Synopsis and Understand Bash Documentation

Lesson 7:

How to Use apropos to Find Bash Commands (with examples)

Module 3: Running Scripts

Lesson 1:

How to Run a Bash Script Explicitly as an Argument in Terminal

Lesson 2:

How to Run a Bash Script With a Shebang Line and the Script Path

Lesson 3:

The Simplest Way to Run a Bash Script with $PATH

Module 4: Editing Commands and Scripts

Lesson 1:

How to Use Bash Readline to Edit Commands and Scripts

Lesson 2:

How to Edit Bash Scripts in Nano and Vim

Module 5: Copying and Pasting

Lesson 1:

Copying and Pasting

Lesson 2:

How to Select Text in Linux Terminal With a Mouse

Lesson 3:

How to Copy and Paste in Linux Terminal With Keyboard Shortcuts

Lesson 4:

How to Copy and Paste Text With the xclip Bash Command

Lesson 5:

How to Copy Formatted Text as HTML From Linux Terminal

Lesson 6:

How to Paste Text in Linux Terminal Safely

Module 6: Listing Files

Lesson 1:

Listing Files

Lesson 2:

Using Linux ls Command to List Files and grep to Search for Files

Lesson 3:

How to Glob, Find Pattern Matching Files, and Run Commands

Module 7: Text

Lesson 1:

Text

Lesson 2:

How to Convert Windows Newlines For Bash With dos2unix

Lesson 3:

How to Convert Text to UTF-8 And Other Encodings in Bash Scripts

Module 8: Math