<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/unix_shell" title="Unix shell" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell">Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial – A Beginner&#8217;s handbook —

This book is for students and Linux System Administrators. It provides the skills to read, write, and debug <a title="Linux" href="http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Linux">Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/shell_script" title="Shell script" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_script">shell scripts using <a title="Bash" href="http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Bash">bash <a title="Shell" href="http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Shell">shell. The book begins by describing <a title="Linux" href="http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Linux">Linux and simple scripts to automate frequently executed commands and continues by describing conditional logic, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/interactivity" title="Interactivity" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactivity">user interaction, loops, menus, traps, and functions. Finally, book covers various sys admin related scripts such as making a backup, using <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b" title="Cron" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron jobs, writing interactive tools, web based tools, remote login, ftp and database backup related scripts. This book is intended for Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/system_administrator" title="System administrator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_administrator">system administrators or students who have mastered the basics of a Linux Operating System. You should be able to:

• Login to local or remote Linux system.
• Use basic Linux commands, such as cp, mv, rm, man,less, chmod and others.
• Create and edit text files in vi or any other <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/text_editor" title="Text editor" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor">text editor.
• <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/graphical_user_interface" title="Graphical user interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface">GUI is not required except for interactive <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gtkplus" title="GTK+" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK+ based GUI scripts.

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