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Bash Shell Scripts: Cecilia M. Curlango Rosas

Shell scripts allow users to automate tasks by writing programs in the Bash shell programming language. A shell is a program that reads command line input and executes commands, and also provides scripting capabilities. Popular shells include Bash, Bourne, C shell, and Z shell. Shell scripts are useful for system administration tasks like backups and log file monitoring, as well as installing and configuring programs.

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Bash Shell Scripts: Cecilia M. Curlango Rosas

Shell scripts allow users to automate tasks by writing programs in the Bash shell programming language. A shell is a program that reads command line input and executes commands, and also provides scripting capabilities. Popular shells include Bash, Bourne, C shell, and Z shell. Shell scripts are useful for system administration tasks like backups and log file monitoring, as well as installing and configuring programs.

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Bash Shell scripts

Cecilia M. Curlango Rosas

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Main Topics

• What are shells?

• What are scripts?

• What are scripts used for?

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What is a shell?
• A shell is a program that reads the command line
and executes the commands the user writes.

• A shell also lets you do tasks like control programs,


redirect input and output and provides a language
for writing scripts.

• On a Linux system, the user can select what shell


he wants for his system.

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Why learn to use the shell?

http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php
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What shells are there?

• The Bourne shell was one of


the most important shells used
in the first Unix versions.

• Stephen R. Bourne from Bell


Labs wrote it.

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What shells are there?

• All Unix type systems have at least one shell that is


compatible with the Bourne shell.

• The name of the program for this shell is sh.

• Its default prompt is $.

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What shells are there?
• The C shell was developed by
Bill Joy for Berkeley Software
Distribution (BSD).

• Its syntax is similar to the C


programming language.

• It is used mostly for interacting


with the terminal, not for
writing scripts.

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What shells are there?
Derived from Bourne Shell Derived from C shell Others

Almquist shell (ash) TENEX C shell (tcsh) wish (Tcl/Tk)

Bourne-Again shell (bash) Hamilton C shell scsh (Scheme)

Debian Almquist shell (dash)

Korn shell (ksh)

Public domain Korn shell (pdksh)

MirBSD Korn shell (mksh)

Z shell (zsh)

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Shells

Image from: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linux-shells/

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Shell Configuration Files

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell
Shell Architecture

Image from: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linux-shells/

Cecilia Curlango Rosas


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What is a script?
• A script is a file that has executable commands
that make up a program.

• In this course, all these terms will mean the same


thing: Bash shell script, Bash script, shell script
and script.

• A Bash shell script is a program written in the Bash


programming language.

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What are scripts used for?

• Administrative system tasks like: disk backups and


checking log files.

• Interactive tasks

• Install and configure programs

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References

• Bash programming HOW-TO http://tldp.org/


HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

• Wiki book Bash scripting http://en.wikibooks.org/


wiki/Bash_Shell_Scripting

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