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Introduction
- About this Course Demo
- Course Structure Demo
- What is the UNIX Shell? Demo
- Which Shell? Demo
- What is a Shell Script? Demo
Your First Shell Script
- A Basic Script Demo
- The echo Command Demo
- The read Command Demo
- Shell Basics Revisited Demo
- Special Characters Demo
- Comments Demo
- Chapter Exercises Demo
- Exercise Solutions Demo
Running a Shell Script
- Running a Script on the Command-line Demo
- Running a Script from within vi Demo
- Your PATH and bin Demo
- Script Interpreters Demo
- CGI Scripts Demo
Shell Programming Features
- Shell Variables
- Environment Variables
- The Trouble with Quotes
- Grouping Commands
- Line Control
- Chapter Exercises
- Exercise Solutions
- Introducing the Course Project
- Course Project Solution
Conditional Code
- True and False
- Conditional Command Execution
- The if Statement
- The else Clause
- The elif Clause
- Using test
- The case Statement
- Chapter Exercises
- Exercise Solutions
Loops
- The while Loop
- break and continue
- Numerical Calculations
- The for Loop
- Chapter Exercises
- Exercise Solutions
Text Processing
- About Filters
- grep
- Regular Expressions
- sort
- sed
- awk
- Chapter Exercises
- Exercise Solutions
Functions
- Program Structure
- Defining and Calling a Function
- Function Parameters
- Function Return Values
- Functions in Other Files
- Case Study: The yesno Function
- Chapter Exercises
- Exercise Solutions
Command-line Parameters
- Using Command-line Parameters
- Using shift
- Using set --
- Using IFS
- Usage Messages
- Chapter Exercises
- Exercise Solutions
Advanced Scripting
- Debugging
- Default Values for Variables
- Temporary Files
- Preventing Abnormal Termination
- Chapter Exercises
- Exercise Solutions
- The End
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