Practical and actionable recipes for using shell and command-line
scripting on your Linux OS with confidence
Key Features:
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Learn how to use the command line and write and debug Linux Shell
scripts
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Automate complex repetitive tasks and backups, and learn networking
and security
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A practical approach to system administration, and virtual machine and
software management
Book Description:
Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Techniques begins by taking you
through the basics of the shell and command-line utilities. You'll start
by exploring shell commands for file, directory, service, package, and
process management. Next, you'll learn about networking - network,
firewall and DNS client configuration, ssh, scp, rsync, and vsftpd, as
well as some network troubleshooting tools.
You'll also focus on using the command line to find and manipulate text
content, via commands such as cut, egrep, and sed. As you progress,
you'll learn how to use shell scripting. You'll understand the basics -
input and output, along with various programming concepts such as loops,
variables, arguments, functions, and arrays. Later, you'll learn about
shell script interaction and troubleshooting, before covering a wide
range of examples of complete shell scripts, varying from network and
firewall configuration, through to backup and concepts for creating live
environments. This includes examples of performing scripted virtual
machine installation and administration, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL,
PHP) stack provisioning and bulk user creation for testing environments.
By the end of this Linux book, you'll have gained the knowledge and
confidence you need to use shell and command-line scripts.
What You Will Learn:
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Get an introduction to the command line, text editors and shell
scripting
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Focus on regular expressions, file handling, and automating complex
tasks
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Automate common administrative tasks
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Become well-versed with networking and system security scripting
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Get to grips with repository management and network-based file
synchronization
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Use loops, arguments, functions, and arrays for task automation
Who this book is for:
This book is for anyone looking to learn about Linux administration via
CLI and scripting. Those with no Linux command-line interface (CLI)
experience will benefit from it by learning from scratch. More
experienced Linux administrators or engineers will also find this book
useful, as it will help them organize their knowledge, fill in any gaps,
and work efficiently with shell scripts to increase productivity.
