Robust Shell Scripting

Table of contents

1. Introduction
   1. Course Introduction
   2. About The Author
2. Getting Started
   1. A Little Bit Of History
   2. The Software Tools Philosophy Part - 1
   3. The Software Tools Philosophy Part - 2
   4. Self-Contained Scripts: Using #!
3. Shell Language Basics
   1. Variables And Simple Output
   2. Accessing Script Arguments
   3. Quoting And Execution Tracing
   4. Redirection And Special Files Part - 1
   5. Redirection And Special Files Part - 2
   6. Command Types; Command And Directory Searching
4. Simple Things To Do With Text
   1. Simple Text Processing Utilities
   2. Simple Text Processing Utilities - Demo
5. Searching For Text
   1. Introduction To Regular Expressions
   2. Basic Regular Expressions - The Components Part - 1
   3. Basic Regular Expressions Live Demo Part - 1
   4. Basic Regular Expressions - The Components Part - 2
   5. Basic Regular Expressions Live Demo Part - 2
   6. Extended Regular Expressions - The Components
   7. Extended Regular Expressions Live Demo
6. Substituting Text
   1. Basic Operation Of Sed
   2. Substitutions With Sed - Live Demo
7. Filename Expansions - Globbing
   1. Tilde Expansion, Wildcarding And Hidden Files
   2. Extended Pattern Matching In Bash And ksh93
8. Working With Fields
   1. Cut And Join
   2. Rearranging Fields With Awk
   3. Rearranging Fields With Awk - Live Demo
9. Sorting Text
   1. Sorting Text
   2. Sorting Text - Live Demo
   3. Processing Duplicates With Uniq
10. Pipelines Can Do Amazing Things
    1. Tag Lists
11. Variables And Arithmetic
    1. Variable Assignment And The Environment
    2. Variables Assignment And The Environment - Live Demo
    3. Parameter Expansions
    4. Parameter Expansions - Live Demo
    5. Arithmetic Expansion
12. Exit Status And Decision Making
    1. Exit Status Values And if-elif-else-fi
    2. The Test Command
    3. Using if And Test - Demo
    4. Extended Test Command
    5. The Case Statement
13. Looping
    1. Looping
    2. Working With Loops: Break, Continue, And Shift
    3. Select Loops
14. Input/Output
    1. Reading Lines With Read
    2. Redirection, File Descriptor Management, And Exec
15. Command And Process Substitution
    1. Command Substitution
    2. Command Substitution - Demo
    3. Process Substitution
16. Evaluation Order, Subshells And Shell Functions
    1. Evaluation Order And eval
    2. Evaluation Order And eval - Demo
    3. Subshells And Code Blocks
    4. Shell Functions
17. Handling Signals
    1. Managing Signals With Kill And Trap
18. Working With Files
    1. Working With Files And Directories
    2. File Comparison And Working With Temporary Files
    3. Finding And Processing Files
    4. Finding And Processing Files - Demo
19. Loose Ends
    1. Loose Ends
    2. General Takeaways
20. Conclusion
    1. Robust Shell Scripting - Conclusion