Bash Scripting for Beginners: Learn to Script!

Acquire the knowledge to understand bash scripts written by shell scripting gurus.

This course is meant to help junior software or network engineers, or students to take the first steps into the world of bash shell scripting. It will help you develop your own scripts in order to interact efficiently with command line tools.

The course is structured into two sections. The first section covers basic building blocks that allow you to write your own shell scripts. Here you will learn about basic utilities used throughout the course, a simple script structure, defining functions, using input/output redirection, pipes and command substitution. The last lectures in this section focus on control statements, like if, case, while and for.