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Lecture On Bash Shell Script

The document discusses various uses of shell scripts including executing commands, running multiple commands together, customizing administrative tasks, and performing task automation. It covers basic script elements like variables, conditional statements, loops, functions, input/output redirection and parsing dates. Key points include using shell commands like echo, read, if/then, case, for/while loops, and checking file permissions and existence.

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Lecture On Bash Shell Script

The document discusses various uses of shell scripts including executing commands, running multiple commands together, customizing administrative tasks, and performing task automation. It covers basic script elements like variables, conditional statements, loops, functions, input/output redirection and parsing dates. Key points include using shell commands like echo, read, if/then, case, for/while loops, and checking file permissions and existence.

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▪ various purposes

➢ Executing a shell command

➢ Running multiple commands together

➢ Customizing administrative tasks

➢ Performing task automation etc.


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Use of terminal or editor


$ bash filename

▪ Cat>filename Or

▪ “vi” editor or “nano” editor $ chmod a+x filename

▪ Use of file extension ➔ “ .sh “ $ ./filename


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▪ ‘echo’ command without any option then a newline is added by default

▪ ‘-n’ option is used to print any text without new line

▪ ‘-e’ option is used to remove backslash characters from the output


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‘#’ symbol is used to add single line comment
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▪ ‘:’ and “ ’ ” symbols are used to add multiline comment
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while [ condition ]

do

statement

done
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for (( operation; condition; operation ))

do

statement

done
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‘read’ command is used to take input from user
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if [ condition ];

then

statement

fi
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case expression in

pattern1)

statement ;;

pattern2)

statement ;;

esac
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▪ combine string variables in bash by placing variables together or using ‘+’ operator
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Need to assign start &


end value
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▪ Use of double brackets
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▪ Bash function can pass both numeric and string values
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▪ ‘-d’ option is used to test a particular directory is exist or not
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▪ Read any file line by line in bash by using loop
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▪ ‘-i’ option is used to get permission from the user before removing the file
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▪ ‘>>’ option is used to append text into a file
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▪ ‘-f’ option is used in the following script to test the file existence
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▪ Every part of date and time value can be parsed using ‘Y’, ‘m’, ‘d’, ‘H’, ‘M’ and ‘S’

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