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Welcome to the home page for the CBB Advanced Bash Scripting short course on October 28, 2022, 9am - 1pm!
This 4 hour, hands-on short course will cover advanced topics in writing bash shell scripts, providing tips, examples and best practices for creating robust "pipeline scripts" that execute multiple processing steps. Topics include defining functions, argument processing and defaulting, subtleties of Unix stream and text manipulation, and error checking. We will also explore effective use of Unix tools such as cut, sort, read, awk, grep, sed, and perl.
Course Outline
- Getting Started
- Introduction
- Basic command-processing script
- Stream handling
- Shells and sub-shells
- Error handling
- Tips and tricks
References
- Linux Fundamentals – a brief review of many Linux techniques and commands
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