Bash Basics for Cloud Computing

Name: Bash Basics for Cloud Computing
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The essential Bash commands and basic scripting skills you need to know in cloud systems.

Created byKumulus Technologies

Last updated 6/2023

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What you'll learn

You will learn the basic bash commands along with some tricks and tips that we've found most useful while working with cloud computing systems.

Course content

4 sections • 20 lectures • 54m total length

Course Introduction0:44

Bash History5:06
Bash History1:00
Bash Scripts4:36
Bash Scripts0:53
Bash Variables3:50
Define and use bash variables in scripts, call them with a dollar sign, and echo their values. Use read to capture user input and reuse it in outputs.
Bash Variables0:41
Bash Conditionals3:53
Bash Conditionals0:28
Curly Brace Expansion4:52
Curly Brace Expansion0:54
Bash Cat (Concatenate)6:04
Master the cat command, the go-to tool for concatenate and basic file manipulation in bash. Learn to create, view, overwrite, and append files, and combine multiple files with redirection.
Cat0:26
Bash Here Files5:13
Master the here document and here file redirections to create and populate scripts, using unique end tags and quoting to prevent variable and string expansion.
Bash Here1:35
Bash Regex (Regular Expressions)6:37
Explore bash regex basics and how regular expressions power text searches. Learn literals, character classes, anchors, and modifiers with examples like SSN, phone numbers, and emails using grep.
Regex2:33

Requirements

You'll need access to a computer that has a bash shell enabled.

Description

Bash is a Unix shell and command language that is the default login shell for most Linux distributions and and MacOS. It is now also available on Windows as of version 10. Over five years of training students in cloud native technologies and in building cloud systems for over twenty years, the team at Kumulus Technologies has found bash commands and scripts to be a basic necessity of "cloud life." In this course you'll get introduced to bash commands you should just know as well as some less common commands that we've found repeatedly useful in our work.

Who this course is for:

Anyone that is beginning to work with command line driven systems that wishes to be more effective and efficient.

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Course Introduction and Orientation1 lecture • 1min

Bash Basics1 lecture • 3min

Working With Bash16 lectures • 49min

Conclusion and Next Steps2 lectures • 2min

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