What we will cover in this course.

1. Course Overview (get complete overview)
2. Installation of Virtual Box
3. Download & Installation of Linux (CentOS) on VirtualBox (Step-by-Step)
4. Download, Install, and connect through PuTTY
5. The Shell
6. What is Shell Scripting?
7. Naming Convention for Shell Script
8. Shell Scripting Format
9. File Permissions in Linux
10. How to Run a Shell Script
11. Basic Commands used in Shell Scripting
12. Listing files and understanding LS output
13. Text Editor vi Introduction
14. Quiz
15. Creating first script - Hello World
16. Defining variable
17. Arithmetic Expressions in Shell Scripting
18. String Manipulation in Shell Scripting
19. String Comparisons in Shell Scripting
20. Read and Echo (Input/Output) statements
21. Relational Operators in Shell Scripting
22. Conditional Statements (Decision Making)
23. Case Statement
24. For loop in Shell Scripting
25. Do-while in Shell Scripting
26. Until Loop in Shell Scripting
27. Select Loop in Shell Scripting
28. Infinite Loops, and Sleeping
29. Exit Status in Shell Scripting
30. Special Variables in Shell Scripting
31. Quiz
32. Functions in Shell Scripting
33. Passing Parameters to a Function
34. Nested Functions
35. Indexed array in Shell Scripting
36. Associative array in Shell Scripting
37. String Concatenation
38. Extract a substring from a string
39. Nested Loop in Shell Scripting
40. Nested Conditions in Shell Scripting
41. Shifting in Shell Scripting
42. Quiz
43. Searching and Extracting Data from Files
44. Shell script to delete oldest files and folders
45. Shell Script to Backup Files in Directory
46. How to use Loops in a file system?
47. Check Users Logged In, Ordered by Date, or IP Address
48. How to trace log messages in a shell script?
49. How to automate user account creation?
50. How to check users not logged in?
51. How to track the process's status and terminate it?
52. How to add and delete data from Inventory?
53. How to reuse one script information to another?
54. How to check the status and connectivity of remote hosts?
55. How to schedule script through cron job?
56. How to check disk space status?
57. How to create and verify created files?
58. How to create script on runtime?
59. Store data on live server database
60. Get data from live database server
61. Quiz
62. The Linux Directory Structure
63. Absolute vs Relative Path of a Directory
64. Creating Files and Directories by Command Line
65. Changing File Permissions
66. Modify File Ownership for User and Group
67. Copying Directories and Files
68. Removing Directories and Files
69. Head and Tail Commands
70. Wild Cards
71. Grep
72. Pipe
73. Shell Aliases
74. Compressing and Archiving Files (using tar, gzip)
75. Explanation of Tab Key Completion
76. Find Your IP Address in Linux
77. User and Group Administration by Command
78. Ping Command
79. Handouts

What You’ll Learn

1. Understand the basic concepts of shell scripting, including how to write and execute scripts.
2. Change files and directories, process text, and perform basic system tasks using common shell commands.
3. Use shell scripts to interact with other programs and services, like web servers and databases.
4. Understand the differences between various shell environments and choose the appropriate shell for a given task.

Course Requirements

1. Courage to learn shell scripting.
2. Familiarity with basic Linux command line operations such as navigating the file system, running commands, and editing text files.
3. Basic knowledge of a programming language is helpful, but prior programming experience is not required.

Who This Course is For

• Anyone interested in automating tasks or creating simple programs on a Linux operating system.