Book description
Practical and actionable recipes for using shell and command-line scripting on your Linux OS with confidence
Key Features
- Learn how to use the command line and write and debug Linux Shell scripts
- Automate complex repetitive tasks and backups, and learn networking and security
- A practical approach to system administration, and virtual machine and software management
Book Description
Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Techniques begins by taking you through the basics of the shell and command-line utilities. You'll start by exploring shell commands for file, directory, service, package, and process management. Next, you'll learn about networking - network, firewall and DNS client configuration, ssh, scp, rsync, and vsftpd, as well as some network troubleshooting tools.
You'll also focus on using the command line to find and manipulate text content, via commands such as cut, egrep, and sed. As you progress, you'll learn how to use shell scripting. You'll understand the basics - input and output, along with various programming concepts such as loops, variables, arguments, functions, and arrays. Later, you'll learn about shell script interaction and troubleshooting, before covering a wide range of examples of complete shell scripts, varying from network and firewall configuration, through to backup and concepts for creating live environments. This includes examples of performing scripted virtual machine installation and administration, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack provisioning and bulk user creation for testing environments.
By the end of this Linux book, you'll have gained the knowledge and confidence you need to use shell and command-line scripts.
What you will learn
- Get an introduction to the command line, text editors, and shell scripting
- Focus on regular expressions, file handling, and automating complex tasks
- Automate common administrative tasks
- Become well-versed with networking and system security scripting
- Get to grips with repository management and network-based file synchronization
- Use loops, arguments, functions, and arrays for task automation
Who this book is for
This book is for anyone looking to learn about Linux administration via CLI and scripting. Those with no Linux command-line interface (CLI) experience will benefit from it by learning from scratch. More experienced Linux administrators or engineers will also find this book useful, as it will help them organize their knowledge, fill in any gaps, and work efficiently with shell scripts to increase productivity.
Table of contents
- Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Techniques
- Contributors
- About the authors
- About the reviewers
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Basics of Shell and Text Terminal
- Chapter 2: Using Text Editors
- Chapter 3: Using Commands and Services for Process Management
- Chapter 4: Using Shell to Configure and Troubleshoot a Network
- Chapter 5: Using Commands for File, Directory, and Service Management
- Chapter 6: Shell-Based Software Management
- Chapter 7: Network-Based File Synchronization
- Chapter 8: Using the Command Line to Find, Extract, and Manipulate Text Content
- Chapter 9: An Introduction to Shell Scripting
- Chapter 10: Using Loops
- Chapter 11: Working with Variables
- Chapter 12: Using Arguments and Functions
- Chapter 13: Using Arrays
- Chapter 14: Interacting with Shell Scripts
- Chapter 15: Troubleshooting Shell Scripts
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Chapter 16: Shell Script Examples for Server Management, Network Configuration, and Backups
- Technical requirements
- Creating a file and folder inventory
- Checking if you're running as root
- Displaying server stats
- Finding files by name, ownership, or content type and copying them to a specified directory
- Parsing date and time data
- Configuring the most common firewall settings interactively
- Configuring network settings interactively
- Backing up the current directory with shell script arguments and variables
- Creating a current backup based on the user input for the backup source and destination
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Chapter 17: Advanced Shell Script Examples
- Technical requirements
- Implementing a web server service and security settings
- Creating users and groups and forcing users to change them on the next login
- Creating users and groups from a standardized input file and a random password for each user
- Scripted VM installation on KVM
- Using a shell script to provision SSH keys
- A shell script for VM administration
- Why subscribe?
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Techniques
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2022
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781800205192
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