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INTERACTIVE COURSE

The Complete Guide to Bash Programming

Beginner

154 Lessons

9h

Certificate of Completion

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Takeaway Skills

Learn about operating system from scratch

Learn basics of Bash

Learn how to use Bash commands in a shell

Explore the features of Bash scripts

Learn how to automate your daily tasks using bash scripts

Learn about operating system from scratch

Learn basics of Bash

Learn how to use Bash commands in a shell

Explore the features of Bash scripts

Learn how to automate your daily tasks using bash scripts

Course Overview

Learning to program computers by yourself is challenging, but we’ve got you! In this course, you’ll learn how to use Bash. Its features will help you solve your daily computer tasks—and even automate some of them! This course covers the general principles of computer operations, devel...

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Hands-on coding environments

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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

1. Introduction

Who Is This Course For?

Hurdles in Learning

An Insight on Existing Learning Material

Why This Course?

2. Origins of the OS

Operating Systems

Electromechanical Computer

Relay Computers

Electrical Computers

OS in Commercial Computers

3. Operating Systems

How the OS Works

Application Programming Interface

Computer Devices

Multiprogramming

GUI: An Overview

GUI: TTY and CLI

GUI: TUI and Xerox

4. Application

Computer Program

Levels of Computer Memory

Exercise: Number Conversions

5. Bash Shell

Development Tools

Command Interpreter

Command-line Interface

6. File System

Directory Structures

File System Navigation Commands

The mount Utility

Command history

The find Utility

Using Glob Pattern with the find Utility

Advanced Usage of the find Utility

Logic Expressions

The grep Command

7. Command Information

Man Page System and Command help

Info System and Brief Help

8. Files and Directories

Actions on Files and Directories

The mkdir Utility

The cp and mv Utilities

Exercise: Commands

File System Permissions

Unix Permissions

Installing and Running Applications in Bash

9. Bash Extra Features

Unix Design Philosophy

I/O Redirection

Advanced Pipeline Example

Limitations of the find Utility

The xargs Utility

Pipeline Pitfalls

Logical Operator AND

More on Operators

Combining Commands

Exercise: Bash Features

10. Scripts Features

Why Do We Need Scripts?

Backup Command Example

Verifying the Backup Command

Poor Technical Solution

Using Bash Script

Commands Sequence

Script Parameters

Script with Other Commands

11. Variables and Parameters

What are Variables?

Classification of Variables

Declaration Mechanism: User-Defined Variables

Bash Expansions

Exercise: Writing a Bash Script

Declaration Mechanism: Internal Variables

Declaration Mechanism: Special Parameters

Scope: Environment Variables

Scope: Local Variables

Content Type: Variable Attributes

Declaring Variables with Attributes

Composite Type: Indexed Arrays

Using Indexed Arrays

Practice: Indexed Arrays

Composite Types: Associative Arrays

12. Conditional Statements

If-else Statement

Exercise: If Statement

The [[ Operator

Advanced Features of the [[ Operator

Operator [[ and Integers

Exercise: Operator [[

Exercise: The [[ Operator and Directories

if and case Statements

Exercise: Case Statement

Alternative to the Case Statement

Exercise: Case Statement and Associative Array

13. Arithmetic Expressions and Operations

Integer Representation

Sign-magnitude Representation

One's Complement

Two's Complement

Converting Numbers

The (( Operator

Operations in the Arithmetic Expressions

Arithmetic Operations

14. Bitwise Operations

Bitwise negation

Exercise: Bitwise NOT

Bitwise AND, OR and XOR

Exercise: Bitwise AND, OR, and XOR

Exercise: Bit shifts

Changing Byte Order Using Bitwise Operations

More on Using Bitwise Operations

15. Logical Operations and Increments

Logical Operations

Increment and Decrement

Ternary Operator

16. Loop Operators

Loop Constructs

While Statement

Reading a Standard Input Stream

Script for Managing the Contacts

For Statement: The First Form of For

Files Processing

For Statement: The Second Form of For

Controlling the Loop Execution: break

Controlling Loop Execution: continue

Exercise: Loop Constructs

17. Functions

Programming Paradigms

Using Functions in Shell

Functions and Aliases

Difference Between Functions and Aliases

Using Functions in Scripts

Returning a Function Result

Exercise: Functions

Exercise: Variable Scope

General Recommendations on Functions

18. Package Manager

Operating on Packages

19. Conclusion

Course Assessment

Bash Programming from Scratch

21. Bash Scripts Tools

Tools Needed for Bash

Source Code Editor

Launching the Editor

Background Mode

22. APPENDIX

Bash on Windows

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