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Learn Bash Quickly: A Hands-on approach to Linux Automation

Name: Learn Bash Quickly: A Hands-on approach to Linux Automation
Rating: 4.5 (713 reviews)

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Master Bash/Shell Scripting and learn how to automate boring Linux tasks!

Created byAhmed Alkabary

Last updated 9/2021

English

English [Auto],

What you'll learn

Automate boring Linux tasks with Bash Scripts
Looping in Bash
Decision Making in Bash
Working with Bash Variables, Arguments, and Loops
Creating Bash Functions
Using Arithmetic Operations in Bash Scripts
Manipulating Strings with Bash
Using Arrays in Bash

Course content

15 sections • 84 lectures • 8h 24m total length

Course Slides0:03
Attached to this lecture is the Power Point Slides for the Learn Bash Quickly Course.
Course Prerequisites2:38
Our Course Plan1:54
Creating a Linux VM6:22
Explore how to create a Linux virtual machine using VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, and VMware Workstation Player, plus cloud options like Azure and AWS, with Raspberry Pi as a practical alternative.
Create a Linux VM on Azure ☁️️16:43
Creating a Linux VM on VirtualBox19:01
Creating a Linux VM on VMware Workstation Player11:55

Using Variables in Bash Scripts6:08
Explore using bash variables to make scripts dynamic, learn to read user input with read, reference variables with $name, and the importance of double quotes for variable expansion.
Variables & Data Types6:30
Explore how bash treats variables as untyped, letting numbers, strings, or characters share a single variable. The lecture demonstrates this with age, color, year, distro, and pi.
Constant Variables3:18
Declare and use constant variables in bash by prefixing with read only, preventing reassignment; illustrate with pi (3.14159) and its role in calculations.
Command Substitutions7:34
A Smarter "Hello, Friend!" Script4:30
Bash Challenge #2: Print Calendar of a given year0:12

Addition and Subtraction7:03
Master bash basics by performing addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division, and powers and remainders, culminating in a calculator that converts Celsius to Fahrenheit.
Multiplication and Division7:10
Powers and Remainders5:42
Learn Bash power and remainder operations by passing two arguments to a script, using a and b, with double star for exponentiation, percent for remainder, and display results.
Celsius to Fahrenheit Calculator6:44
Bash Challenge #5: Calculate net salary0:25

Getting String Length4:23
Concatenating Strings4:58
Finding Substrings4:42
Extracting Substrings4:43
Learn to extract substrings in bash using a starting index and optional length with zero-based indexing, demonstrated by obtaining fedora and operating from a string.
Replacing Substrings3:26
Replace substrings in bash by updating a string variable, swapping fedora with ubuntu and free with popular. Commit changes by assignment, not just echoing.
Deleting Substrings4:03
Learn to delete substrings in bash by removing single or all occurrences using single and double forward slashes, and update variables with assignment.
Converting Upper and Lowercase Letters6:29
Learn how to convert between uppercase and lowercase letters in bash strings using techniques like double carrot sign, double comma sign, and character class, with practical examples.
Bash Challenge #6: Remove Asterisks from String0:22

For Loops in Bash #1 C-Style7:12
For Loops in Bash #2 List/Range6:33
While Loops in Bash7:30
Learn to implement a Bash while loop by initializing a counter, testing the condition, and printing the first ten multiples of three, as an alternative to for loops.
Until Loops in Bash7:37
Traversing Array Elements5:20
Learn to traverse Bash arrays with for loops, using range or list style to print elements such as the first ten prime numbers, or arrays of users, files, and servers.
Using break & continue in Loops12:48
Beware of Infinite Loops9:08
Bash Challenge #8: Ping a bunch of servers0:47

Requirements

Linux Command Line Basics

Description

Bash Scripting comes up in almost every single DevOps Interview questions ... Be Prepared!

This course also include my 3 bestseller books (in eBook version):

Learn Bash Quickly
Learn Linux Quickly
Learn Ansible Quickly (RHCE)

Master Bash Scripting and learn how to automate boring administrative Linux tasks.

Key Features

Create and run efficient Bash scripts
Implement Bash functions
Automate complex and repetitive tasks

Course Description

Learn Bash Quickly is a fully practical hands-on course for learning bash scripting. It will get you up and running with bash scripting in no time.

First, you will break the ice with Bash scripting by creating and running a very simple "Hello World" program. Then, you will dive into the world of Bash variables, arguments, string, and arrays. Also, you will learn how to use conditional statements in your bash script. Moreover, you will explore various Bash looping constructs and get to realize how powerful they are. In addition, you will get to write Bash functions, so your code looks clean and unrepetitive. Finally, you will see how you can use bash to automate some of the tedious tasks on Linux.

By the end of this course, you will have all the skills necessarily to develop state of the art bash scripts that can automate any repetitive task you may encounter while working on Linux systems.

What you will learn

Understand how to work with Bash variables, arguments, string, and arrays.
Make your Bash scripts smarter with conditional statements.
Analyze various Bash looping constructs.
Design and create recursive Bash functions.
Automate boring administrative tasks.

Who This Course Is For

If you are tired of spending countless hours doing the same tedious task on Linux over and over again then this course is for you! Learn Bash Quickly will teach you all the skills you need to automate borings tasks in Linux. You will be much more efficient working on Linux after taking this course, more importantly, you will get more sleep, I promise you!

Learn Bash Quickly does assume prior Linux knowledge and that you have experience working on the Linux command line.

Table of Contents

Hello World
Bash Variables
Bash Script Arguments
Bash Arrays
Basic Arithmetic Operations
Bash Strings
Decision Making in Bash
Bash Loops
Bash Functions
Automation with Bash
Solutions to Bash Exercises

Who this course is for:

Linux System Administrators
Linux Intermediate Users and Power Users
DevOps Engineers
Anyone who uses Linux at work or at home.

Learn Bash Quickly: A Hands-on approach to Linux Automation

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Course content

Course Introduction & Creating a Linux VM7 lectures • 59min

Hello Bash5 lectures • 31min

Bash Variables6 lectures • 28min

Bash Script Arguments5 lectures • 27min

Bash Arrays6 lectures • 31min

Basic Arithmetic Operations5 lectures • 27min

String Operations in Bash8 lectures • 33min

Decision Making in Bash7 lectures • 53min

Bash Loops8 lectures • 57min

Bash Functions6 lectures • 48min

Requirements

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