Linux Bash Shell Scripting: A Practical Way of Learning
Practical approach to learn and explore the shell scripting with various industrial projects
IT and Software ,Operating Systems and Servers,Linux
Lectures -84
Resources -1
Duration -8.5 hours
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Course Description
Linux Bash shell scripting is a powerful tool that can be used to automate tasks, manage systems, and develop complex applications. It is a must-have skill for any Linux user or administrator.
This online video course will teach you everything you need to know about Linux Bash shell scripting, from the basics to advanced topics. You will learn about variables, functions, conditional statements, loops, regular expressions, and more. You will also learn how to write scripts to automate common tasks, such as file management, system administration, and software development.
Course Overview
This course is designed in such a way that you can learn as well as explore the entire course module with various industrial projects.
A practical approach to learning and exploring shell scripting with various industrial projects
Course Content
Introduction of Shell Programming
- What is Bash Shell?
- Types of Shell available in Linux
- About Shell Scripting
- Bash Shell Startup Scripts
- User’s Home Directory - .bash_profile, .bashrc & .bash_logout
- Shebang
- Create a simple Shell Script
- Setting up permissions on a script
- Debug a Script
The Shell Variables & Environment
- Bash Variables
- Environmental Variables
- System Variables
- Assign values to shell variables
- Customize the bash shell environments
- set, env & export commands
- Rules for naming variables
- Simple Script using the echo command
- Quoting
- There are three Types of quoting
- The double quote (")
- The single quote (')
- The Backslash (\\)
- User's Input via Keyboard
- Read Command
- IFS
- Practice Lab Session
Arithmetic Operations
- Performing Arithmetic Operations
- Create an integer Variable
- Create the constant Variable
- Path name expansion
- Wildcards [*], ?, [..] etc
- Create & use aliases
- Practice Lab Sessions
Industrial Project to Completely Automate the Pre-validation Report
- A Shell Script to collect required information from a server
- The Bash Color
- Writing Color Text
- Various Color Codes for Foreground & Background Text
- Lab Session on Bash Color
- Script to fetch the system information, i.e system_details
- Schedule the script via cron
- Final Script to fetch the environment report on a single click
- Lab Session
Conditional Statements (Decision Making)
- Overview of conditional execution
- What is Condition?
- Boolean value (True & False)
- If else statement
- Lab Session on if..else..
- if..elif..else..if statement
- test command
- Logical AND &&
- Logical OR !!
- The exit status of a command
- Numeric Comparison
- String Comparison
- File Attributes Comparison
- Shell Command line parameters
- Positional parameters via special shell variable $1, $2, $3,...,$N.
- Practice Lab Session
Bash Loops
- Overview of loop statement
- for loop statement
- Lab on for loop
- for loop using C-like Syntax
- for loop using command line arguments
- Nested for loop statement
- Chessboard using a nested loop statement
- While loop statement
- Lab Session - read a text file line-by-line or using IFS
- infinite while loop
- case statement
- Lab session on case statement
- Create a simple menu-driven program or automation tool Using Case Statement
- Industrial Project
- Discussed various scripts using for or while loop
Shell Redirection & Process Management
- Input Output Redirection in Linux
- Lab Session on redirection
- Pipelines in Linux
- tee command
- file descriptor (fd) to file for output
- file descriptor (fd) to file for input
- file descriptor (fd) for reading & writing
- Practice Lab Session
- Overview of a Process
- Foreground & background Process
- Various Stats of a Process
- Lab Session
Functions
- Defining functions
- Displaying functions
- Nested functions
- Lab Session - writing functions
- Calling functions
- Local & global variables
- Passing arguments into a function
- return statement
- Practice Lab Sessions
AWK
- Introduction Awk
- Pattern matching
- User-defined variables in awk
- Awk pre-processing
- Awk post-processing
- Practice Lab Session
SED Stream Editor
- Introduction
- Replacing or substituting string.
- Replacing the nth occurrence of a pattern in a line
- Replacing all the occurrences of the pattern in a line
- Changing the slash (/) delimiter
- Using & as the matched string
- Duplicating the replaced line with the /p flag
- Replacing string on a specific line number
- Replacing string on a range of lines
- Replace on a line that matches a pattern
- Deleting lines
- Add a line after a match
- Add a line before a match
- Last Lecture
Who is this course for?
IT professionals across a broad range of disciplines who need to perform essential administration tasks and automation.
Graduate Students and also those who are looking for a job in Automation using Shell Scripting in Linux & want to get hands-on practical experience in Automation & build up a base on Shell Scripting.
Goals
- Overview of various shells in Unix Based Operating Systems
- Introduction of Shell Programming
- Bash Shell Startup Scripts
- Shebang
- Debug a script
- The Shell Variables & Environment
- Bash, Environmental & System Variables
- set, env & export command
- Quoting and their types
- Performing Arithmetic Operations
- Create an integer & constants Variable
- Wildcard and path name expansions
- Industrial Project to Completely Automate the Pre-validation Report
- Conditional Statements (Decision Making)
- If else statement & if…elif..else..if statement
- Logical AND &&, OR!!
- test command & exit status of a command
- Numeric, String & File Attributes Comparison
- Positional parameters via special shell variable $1, $2, $3,…,$N
- Bash Loops - for loop statement
- for loop using C like Syntax, passing arguments, nested loop
- Chessboard using a nested loop statement
- While loop statement
- Case Statement
- Create a simple menu-driven program or automation tool Using Case Statement
- Shell Redirection & Process Management
- Input Output Redirection in Linux
- file descriptor (fd) to file
- Foreground & background Process
- Defining functions
- Nested functions
- Writing functions, Calling functions
- Local & global variables
- Passing arguments into a function
- Return statement
- Practice Lab Sessions
- About AWK
- Pattern matching in AWK
- Pre & post processing in AWK
- User-defined variables in AWK
Prerequisites
- PC or Laptop with an internet connection
- Basic knowledge of any operating system.

Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Introduction
10 Lectures
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Overview of course module 07:43 07:43
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What is Linux Shell? 04:59 04:59
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Types of shells available in Linux 08:43 08:43
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About Shell Scripting 07:36 07:36
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Overview of Bash Shell 02:06 02:06
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User’s Home Directory - .bash_profile, .bashrc & .bash_logout 08:50 08:50
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Practice Lab Session - 1 08:17 08:17
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Practice Lab Session - 2 04:20 04:20
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Create a simple shell script 08:16 08:16
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Debug a script 10:33 10:33
The Shell Variables & Environment
10 Lectures

Arithmetic Operations
6 Lectures

Industrial Project to Automate the Pre-validation report
7 Lectures

Conditional Statements (Decision Making)
14 Lectures

Bash Loops
13 Lectures

Shell Redirection
7 Lectures

Functions
7 Lectures

AWK
4 Lectures

SED - Stream Editor
6 Lectures

Instructor Details

Shikhar Verma
Shikhar Verma is an accomplished entrepreneur and corporate trainer, leading Techstart, an IT company specializing in a wide range of technology-driven projects. His expertise encompasses designing and developing certified courses, content creation, and managing both online and offline IT projects for renowned organizations.
With over 15 years of experience in the IT industry before establishing his own business, Shikhar has cultivated a deep understanding of technology and corporate training. His passion lies in leveraging his technical skills and experience to drive organizational growth while advancing his professional journey.
As an instructor on TutorialsPoint, Shikhar is dedicated to making complex technical concepts accessible and easy to understand. Since beginning his teaching career in 2016, he has successfully educated over 100,000 students worldwide and continues to inspire learners across diverse backgrounds. He takes immense pride in his ability to connect with students from nearly every country.
Shikhar holds a B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and his technical courses have empowered more than 1 lakh students across 165 countries.
His core expertise includes GenAI, Python, DevOps, Docker, Git, Kubernetes, Linux, Ansible, Shell Scripting, AWS Cloud (Amazon Web Services), Linux Clustering, and Perl.
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