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Master the Bash Shell

Name: Master the Bash Shell
Price: 59 USD
Author: Ian Miell

Gain insights into the intricacies of the Bash shell, ideal for beginners. Delve into essential skills with interactive learning designed to ensure lasting knowledge without requiring prior experience.

4.5

26 lessons

10h

Created by Ian Miell

What's included

26 lessons across 4 modules
18 quizzes with instant feedback
AI Tutor on every lesson

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What You'll Learn

Explain what Bash is and how it interacts with the operating system and other shells
Apply globbing and quoting rules to match files safely and distinguish globs from regex
Use variables, arrays, and environment exports to manage data and shell state
Write Bash functions with arguments and scope, and distinguish builtins, aliases, and programs
Build scripts using pipes, redirects, substitutions, tests, loops, and getopts option parsing
Debug and harden scripts using exit codes, set options, traps/signals, and shellcheck

Learning Roadmap

26 Lessons18 Quizzes

Core Bash

Understand Bash shell basics, globbing, quoting, variables, functions, and input/output management.

Scripting Bash

Get started with essential Bash scripting techniques, including scripts, substitutions, loops, and exit codes.

The Internal Field Separator

Bash in Practice

6 Lessons

Examine efficient Bash usage with Readline, terminal codes, prompt customization, history, and practical examples.

Advanced Bash

6 Lessons

Enhance your skills in job control, traps, debugging, string manipulation, and autocomplete in Bash.

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

About this course

WHY I WROTE THIS COURSE

A course for anyone interested in understanding all aspects of the bash shell. Designed for use by beginners, it assumes as little knowledge as possible but teaches you all the intricacies of bash it took me decades to learn by trial and error. The interactive nature of the course instills the knowledge in a way you will not forget!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ian Miell

Ian is a software developer, writer, and trainer with over two decades' experience designing, building, and maintaining some of the busiest software systems in the world.

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