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Lecture4 Shell Scripting

The document provides an overview of the vi editor in Linux, highlighting its two modes: command mode and insert mode, along with basic commands for text editing. It also discusses the use of variables in shell scripting, including how to display special characters and the significance of single and double quotes. Additionally, it touches on important internal bash variables and concepts related to conditional expressions and branching in scripts.

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Lecture4 Shell Scripting

The document provides an overview of the vi editor in Linux, highlighting its two modes: command mode and insert mode, along with basic commands for text editing. It also discusses the use of variables in shell scripting, including how to display special characters and the significance of single and double quotes. Additionally, it touches on important internal bash variables and concepts related to conditional expressions and branching in scripts.

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College of Informatics and Virtual

Education

CP 211: Linux Administration


Shell Scripting
Vi Editor
 There are a number text editors in Linux.

 If you are using a GUI, you can run gedit, which is fairly intuitive for editing text. There’s also a simple
text editor you can run from the shell terminal which is called nano.

 However, most Linux shell users will use either vi (vim) or emacs to edit text files. The advantage of vi
or emacs over a graphical editor is that you can use it from any shell, a character terminal, or a
character-based connection over a telnet.
Vi Command Modes
 vi has two modes:

 The command mode and

 The insert mode.

 When you are in command mode, letters of the keyboard will be interpreted as commands.

 When you are in insert mode the same letters of the keyboard will type or edit text.

 vi always starts out in command mode. When you wish to move between the two modes, keep these things in mind.

 You can type i to enter the insert mode.

 If you wish to leave insert mode and return to the command mode, hit the ESC key. If you're not sure where you are, hit ESC a
couple of times and that should put you back in command mode.
Basic Commands
Basic Commands
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Linux System Architecture
Variables

 This echoes "one two three" to the


screen. Note the use of double quotes
 This would echo "Hello There!" to enclosing the string.
the console display
Variables
 To display special characters use the sysmbol \. Eg. The presentation \\ would output \

 Surrounding anything within single quotes causes it to be treated as literal text that is it will
be passed on exactly as intended, this can be useful for sending command sequences to
other files in order to create new scripts because the text between the single quotes will
remain untouched. For example:

 This would cause "msg="Hello World!" to be echoed and


redirected to the file hello, "echo $msg" would then be
echoed and redirected to the file hello but this time
appended to the end.
Important internal bash variables
Passing parameters to scripts
Bash Conditional Expressions
Bash Conditional Expressions
Bash Conditional Expressions
Reading from standard input
Exit status
Branching with if
Branching with if

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