Linux Bash Shell Scripting: Complete Guide (incl. AWK & SED)

🚀 Linux Bash Shell Scripting: Complete Guide (incl. AWK & SED) 🎓

Welcome to the comprehensive guide on Bash shell scripting, where I, Richard Böhm, your seasoned instructor, will lead you through the journey from a beginner to an advanced user of shell scripts! 🧑‍💻✨

Course Overview:

• Basics of Scripting: No prior knowledge? No worries! We'll start right from the basics, ensuring everyone is on the same page.

• Sha-Bang Explained: Discover the significance of the infamous "sha-bang" and why it's crucial for your scripts to include it.

• Decision Making: Learn how to make your scripts smart with conditional statements.

• Mastering Regular Expressions: Gain proficiency in patterns with regular expressions to manipulate text like a pro.

• Wildcards: Understand the power of wildcards for file and pattern matching.

• Loops (For & While): Get hands-on with iterative processes using for and while loops.

• Functions: Learn to write reusable, clean code by creating your own functions.

• Arguments Handling (CASE Structure): Efficiently parse and handle command-line arguments.

• Getopt & Getopts: Command-line argument parsing techniques made simple.

🛠️ Special Focus on AWK & SED:

• AWK Mastery: Explore the power of data extraction, report generation, and text processing with AWK.

• SED Sorcery: Discover how to use streams for filtering and transforming text with SED.

🚀 Why This Course?

Years ago, as a fledgling UNIX administrator, I was in dire need of a comprehensive resource that would cover all aspects of shell scripting. I found myself piecing together knowledge from various sources, which was neither efficient nor satisfying. That's when the idea for this course struck me – to create a one-stop-shop for anyone looking to master Bash scripting, including AWK and SED, and to do it in a way that would have made my own start in this field much smoother. 🌟

This course is not just about writing scripts; it's about understanding how they work under the hood and being able to combine different tools and concepts to create powerful, efficient, and "magical" scripts that can automate tasks, process data, and solve complex problems.

🎥 Course Preview:

To give you a taste of what's in store, I invite you to watch the preview lectures. You'll see the kind of scripts we'll build throughout this course, and how these skills can be applied in real-world scenarios.

🔧 Who is this course for?

This course is designed for:

• Beginners who are new to shell scripting or programming.
• Intermediate users who want to refine their scripting skills.
• System administrators and DevOps professionals seeking to automate tasks more effectively.
• Anyone interested in learning powerful text processing tools like AWK and SED.

Join me on this journey, and let's dance your bash programming skills into a heroic mastery! 🕺💃

Enroll now and transform the way you handle scripts and text processing with Bash, AWK, and SED! 🎉