Linux Boot Camp, Resources & Miscellaneous Links

Notice:

The material here is from a range of random sources that I have stumbled across and have linked or referenced where I remembered to note the source. Images are linked to their original location for the most part.

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Resources (in random order)

Distributions:

You will need an O/S to do your CLI and shell scripting :)

You could use a " Live CD " such as Knoppix, Debian based distribution.
or
Slax, Slackware based distribution.

Scripting guides: Bash & AWK

some “wicked-cool-shell-scripts” apparently, actually there are some excellent examples. Available as a book

Aliens Bash tutorial, suitable for humans, nerds and geeks also.

Advanced BASH Scripting Guide.

'Here' document Guide. Explore the wonderful world of 'here' docs. Actually it's chapter 18 in the above guide ;)

AWK text processing etc. language Very powerful

Another AWK tutorial

“Useless Use of cat Award” A useful set of common mistakes and errors in scripting.

Help with editors:

Learn a bit of vi as it is on (almost) all flavours of *nix, whereas emacs might not be ...

very useful vi (editor) crib sheet.

very useful emacs (editor) crib sheet.

Presentation

html version of slides from scripting & configuring. tarball of magicpoint presentation and images

Worksheets

• Very basic shell/cli stuff
• some useful file-handling stuff
• Using find and grep (more shell scripting)
• Shell Scripting introduction
• Emacs handy hints.
• Postit® notes that don't fall off the monitor

Exercises:

These are in addition to the worksheets.

• Develop a script to convert the file triki1.txt into a csv file suitable to be read by a spreadsheet.
• Develop a script to replace the spaces in a group of filenames with underscores (_) using the files in this tarball

Books:

Slight touch of personal bias here ;)

Silly Stuff: