Name of the Programme : Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA)
Semester : 2 Course Name : Linux Shell Scripting Course Code : T3200 No. of Credit : 2
Learning Objectives: Hands on experience on Linux OS to understand the functionalities of operating system, and various flavors of shell scripting. After completing this students will be able to understand: 1. Basis of Linux shell scripting 2. Understand the basics of user commands 3. Write shell scripts and use it to save time with automated scripts 4. Customizing shell start-up files 5. Creating nifty utilities 6. Control your administration tasks such as Linux user management, Linux system monitoring etc.
Course Outline:
Module Topic No. 1 Brief recap of Linux/Unix architecture and concepts 2 Cron, significant file formats 3 Bash profiles, mounting 4 What is the Shell? Shell Responsibilities Program Execution Symbiosis International (Deemed University)
Filename Substitution Variable Expansion Environment Variables Quoting 5 I/O Redirection stdin, stdout & stderr Device Files Here Documents Pipes & Filters 6 Commands and Filters cat, touch, find head, tail sort, cut wc grep family xargs pv 7 Regular Expressions Regular Expressions Intro BREs (Basic Regular Expressions) 8 Shell Scripts And Programming What is a Shell Script? Invoking Shell Scripts Permissions Comments Which Shell gets run? Passing Arguments from the Command Line Grouping Commands 9 Making Decisions and Loops Symbiosis International (Deemed University)
Exit Status if Statement Testing Conditions read command Arithmetic case Statement 10 Benefits and Uses of Loops for Loop Three-expression for Loop Infinite Loops Conditional Exits with break Continuation with continue while Loop until Loop
