Advanced Shell Topics: Intro


This presentation is a demonstration of what kinds of things you can do within the BASH shell beyond simply listing files and changing directories. It's aimed at the user who has learned about some of the useful things that you can do in bash like tab-name file completion, use of the command history (via the up arrow) and things like exporting variables. We start out by quickly covering variables, command line movement, job control, pipeline redirection and for loops. I will go on to show how you can use these concepts in conjunction with programs like grep, awk, sed, xargs, cut, sort and uniq to get the most out of your time spent at the command line.

NOTE: During this presentation I will skip around a bit and leave some things out. I do this because I believe that teaching too many closely related concepts all at once can lead to confusion.


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