Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition

Don't neglect the shell – this book will empower you to use simple commands to perform complex tasks. Whether you're a casual or advanced Linux user, the cookbook approach makes it all so brilliantly accessible and, above all, useful.

Key Features

• Master the art of crafting one-liner command sequence to perform text processing, digging data from files, backups to sysadmin tools, and a lot more
• And if powerful text processing isn't enough, see how to make your scripts interact with the web-services like Twitter, Gmail
• Explores the possibilities with the shell in a simple and elegant way - you will see how to effectively solve problems in your day to day life

Book Description

What you will learn

• Explore a variety of regular usage tasks and how it can be made faster using shell command
• Write shell scripts that can dig data from web and process it with few lines of code
• Use different kinds of tools together to create solutions
• Interact with simple web API from scripts
• Perform and automate tasks such as automating backups and restore with archiving tools
• Create and maintain file/folder archives, compression formats and encrypting techniques with shell
• Set up Ethernet and Wireless LAN with the shell script
• Monitor different activities on the network using logging techniques

Who this book is for

This book is both for the casual GNU/Linux users who want to do amazing things with the shell, and for advanced users looking for ways to make their lives with the shell more productive.You can start writing scripts and one-liners by simply looking at the similar recipe and its descriptions without any working knowledge of shell scripting or Linux. Intermediate/advanced users as well as system administrators/ developers and programmers can use this book as a reference when they face problems while coding.