Shell script (1/2)

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In Linux single command do one thing and do it well
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Complex command is a combination of single commands
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You can make a new complex command by placing many single

commands in a file
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The file itself is called a shell script

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Shell script (2/2)

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Shell script can be called as a single command
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The name of a command is the name of the script file

$ script_file_name option argument

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Shell script

To make your script file executable you need to change mode of

your file

$ chmod +x script_file_name

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Which shell

To know which is the current shell

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/csh

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Shell script

To specify what shell you want your script to be executed, you need
to add

#!location_of_ shell

to the beginning script file To know the location of a shell

$ which shell_name
$ which sh
/bin/sh

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Bourne Shell

Bourne shell script should begin with

#!/bin/sh

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Output text to screen

To output text to the screen

echo text_to_output

#/bin/sh
echo “Hello 9G”
$sh my_script
Hello 9G

Please refer to “echo.sh”

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Variable (1/4)
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A named item that can hold a value
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To assign value for variable

VARIABLE_NAME=VALUE

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To refer to variable value

$VARIABLE_NAME

Please refer to “variable.sh”

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Variable (2/4)

Consider this example

MYVAR=”Hello 9”
echo “$MYVARGeneration”

The program will output nothing because it does not understand

what is $MYVARGeneration

Please refer to “variable.sh”

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Variable (3/4)

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If you want to specify a string follow a variable you must specified the
end of a variable
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The end of a variable can be specified by using {}

MYVAR=”Hello 9”
echo “${MYVAR}Generation”

Please refer to “variable.sh”

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Variable (4/4)
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To read the value from user input

read VARIABLE_NAME

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Please refer to “read.sh” for example

Please refer to “read.sh”

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for loop (1/5)

General Syntax

for variable in list_of items

do
command 1
command 2
.....
last command
done

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for loop (2/5)

This code will list all files in the current directory

for filename in *
do
echo “$filename”
done

Please refer to “for_3.sh”

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for loop (3/5)

This code will print value from 1 to 10

for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
do
echo $i
done

Please refer to “for_1.sh”

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for loop (4/5)

max=10
for ((i=1; i <= max; i++))
do
echo $i
done

Please refer to “for_2.sh”

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for loop (5/5)

Nested Loop

for i in 1 2 3 4
do
for j in 1 2 3 4
do
echo “Row $i Column $j”
done
done

Please refer to “nested_for.sh”

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If

Syntax

if ( test condition)
then
command 1
command 2
.....
fi

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If statement (1/4)

Condition of comparing number

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while statement
Syntax

while ( test condition)

do
commands .....
done

Please refer to “while_1.sh”

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case statement

Syntax

case word in
value1)
command ..
;;
value2)
command...
;;
*)
command ...
esac

Please refer to “case.sh”

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