Bash for Programmers

Course Overview

Ever wondered why command line is still in use even when there are hundreds of human-friendly GUI’s and tools available? Everyone in the programmer's world would agree on one thing: Command Line is far more powerful than any GUI. It provides a richer experience in terms of speed and ex... See More

How You'll Learn

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. Introduction to Bash

What is Shell?

Introduction to Linux

Getting Meta Information in Bash

What is Bash?

Introduction to Command Line

Commands & Arguments (Optional)

Getting Info about Commands

Finding System Date and Time

Other Commonly Used Bash Commands

Quick Quiz!

2. Navigation Commands

Pathnames in Bash

Symbolic Links & Hard Links

Check the Current Directory in Bash

Navigate between Directories

Display Files in a Directory

Create a Directory in Bash

Remove a Directory in Bash

Quick Quiz!

3. File Manipulation Commands

Create a File in Bash

Remove a File in Bash

Open/Display Content of a File

Move Files in a Directory

Copying Files in Bash

Zipping a File in Bash

Quick Quiz!

4. Permission Commands

What are Permissions?

Set/Remove Permissions in Bash

Quick Quiz!

5. Filtering & Searching Commands

Searching in Bash

Sorting File Contents in Order

Viewing Beginning and Ending Contents of Files

Filtering Repeated Lines Out

Regular Expressions (Regex)

GREP vs. EGREP vs. FGREP

Quick Quiz!

6. System & Process Commands

Processes

Jobs: How Do They Differ from Processes

Getting Root Privileges

Killing a Process

Quick Quiz!

7. Variables and Environment

Variables and their Types

Variable Assignment & Expansion

Terminal is fun (Really)

Caution: Cool Stuff Ahead!

The Real Power of Bash

How to Use Git with Bash

Quick Quiz!

8. An Overview of Commands

Misc. Commands' Cheatsheet

Final Quiz