Advanced Bash Scripting

Further your scripting skills with this essential Bash training course. Sander van Vugt, best-selling author of Red Hat and general Linux book and video titles, walks you through everything you need to know to take your Bash skills to the next level. This course will teach you scripting best practices and syntax differences. You will also learn how to use advanced awk, sed, and regular expressions before jumping in to how to analyze advanced scripts. After that, you will dig in to how to write complex scripts and explore the concept of scripting for performance. You will then end with scripting in Python.

This course consists of eight lessons that fully explain advanced Bash scripting concepts. Every lesson contains practical examples to show how scripting solutions are being used in the real world. At the end of each lesson, Sander van Vugt will provide a real scripting exercise so you can test your own skills. You can then review your work against the author’s in a solutions video.

The video lessons cover the following topics:

Lesson 1: Reviewing Basics
Lesson 2: Scripting Best Practices
Lesson 3: Understanding Syntax Differences
Lesson 4: Using Advanced awk, sed, and Regular Expressions
Lesson 5: Analyzing Advanced Scripts
Lesson 6: Writing a Complex Script
Lesson 7: Scripting for Performance
Lesson 8: Beyond Bash; Scripting in Python