You're reading from Mastering Linux Shell Scripting Master the complexities of Bash shell scripting and unlock the power of shell for your enterprise

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784396978

Length 198 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Shell Scripting

Author (1):

Andrew Mallett

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. What and Why of Scripting with Bash FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating Interactive Scripts

3. Conditions Attached

4. Creating Code Snippets

5. Alternative Syntax

6. Iterating with Loops

7. Creating Building Blocks with Functions

8. Introducing sed

9. Automating Apache Virtual Hosts

10. Awk Fundamentals

11. Summarizing Logs with Awk

12. A Better lastlog with Awk

13. Using Perl as a Bash Scripting Alternative

14. Using Python as a Bash Scripting Alternative

Index

Chapter 14. Using Python as a Bash Scripting Alternative

Python is another scripting language and the newest that we have looked at so far. Similar to bash and Perl, Python is an interpreted language and makes use of the shebang. Although, it does not have a shell interface, we can access a console called the REPL where we can type Python codes to interact with the system. In this chapter we will cover the following topics:

What is Python?
Saying Hello the Python way
Pythonic arguments
Significant whitespace
Read user input
Using Python to write to files

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Authors (1)

Andrew Mallett

Andrew Mallett has been working professionally with Linux since 1999; much of that time as an Instructor. He now runs his consultancy where he works with and writes about Linux. He is onto his 5th book with Packt and has 65,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel: theurbanpenguin. You can be assured that he masters Linux and is passionate to share his knowledge with you.

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