You're reading from Linux Shell Scripting Bootcamp The fastest way to learn Linux shell scripting

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787281103

Length 208 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Shell Scripting

Author (1):

James K Lewis

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Shell Scripting FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Variables

3. Using Loops and the sleep Command

4. Creating and Calling Subroutines

5. Creating Interactive Scripts

6. Automating Tasks with Scripts

7. Working with Files

8. Working with wget and curl

9. Debugging Scripts

10. Scripting Best Practices

Index

Chapter 6. Automating Tasks with Scripts

This chapter shows how to automate various tasks using scripts.

The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:

How to create a script to automate a task.
The proper way to use cron to run the script automatically at specific times.
How to use ZIP and TAR to perform compressed backups.
Source code examples.

The reader will learn how to create automated scripts.

We talked about the sleep command in Chapter 3, Using Loops and the sleep Command. It can be used to create an automated script (that is, one that runs at a specific time with no user intervention) as long as a few guidelines are followed.

This very simple script will reinforce what we covered in Chapter 3 Using Loops and the sleep Command about using the sleep command for automation:

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Authors (1)

James K Lewis

James Kent Lewis has been in the computer industry for over 35 years. He started out writing BASIC programs in high school and used punch cards in college for his Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, and assembly language classes. He himself learned the C programming language by writing various utilities, including a fully-functional text editor, which he uses everyday. He started out using DOS and AIX, and then OS/2. Linux is now his operating system of choice. Jim has worked in the past for several companies, including IBM, Texas Instruments, Tandem, Raytheon, Hewlett-Packard, and others. Most of these positions dealt with low-level device drivers and operating system internals. In his spare time he likes to create video games in Java.He has written articles for IBM Developer Works and has one patent.

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