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Lesson 10 - Writing Scripts

This document discusses writing and customizing scripts. It covers objectives like writing simple scripts and automating system administration tasks by scheduling jobs. It provides information on scripting basics like variables, conditional statements, loops, functions and scheduling scripts to run periodically using cron jobs. The document also includes exercises for readers to practice scripting.

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Lesson 10 - Writing Scripts

This document discusses writing and customizing scripts. It covers objectives like writing simple scripts and automating system administration tasks by scheduling jobs. It provides information on scripting basics like variables, conditional statements, loops, functions and scheduling scripts to run periodically using cron jobs. The document also includes exercises for readers to practice scripting.

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Lesson 10: Writing Scripts

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Objectives covered

o 105.2 Customize or write simple scripts (weight: 4)


o 107.2 Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs
(weight: 4)

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Customize or write simple scripts

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Global environment variables

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Local environment variables

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Setting local and global variables

Local variables Global variables

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Locating System Environment Variables

1. /etc/profile
2. $HOME/.bash_profile $HOME/.bashrc $BASH_ENV variable
3. $HOME/.bash_login
4. $HOME/.profile

Login shell Interactive shell Noninteractive shell

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Using Command Aliases

Using Command Aliases

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Shell features

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Shell script format

Shebang sign

Commands Comment

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Running shell scripts

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Shell variables

Global environment variables

Local variables

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Shell script arguments

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Time for labs

Execise 20: Writing scripts – Part 1

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Shell script – Accept input from user

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Shell script – Accept input from user

Limit the character for reading


Timing out reading

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Shell script – Accept input from user

Silent reading

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Shell script – Exit status

Command completed successfully have the exit value 0

Control the exit value of shell script with exit command

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Shell script programming

Command subtitution

Performing math

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Shell script programming

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Shell script programming

if [ condition ]
then
commands
fi

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Shell script programming

if [ condition ]
then
commands
fi

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Shell script programming

case variable in
pattern1) commands1;;
pattern2 | pattern3) commands2;;
*) default commands;;
esac

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Time for labs

Execise 21: Writing scripts – Part 2

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Shell script programming

for variable in series ; do


commands
done

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Shell script programming

while [ condition ] ; do
commands
done

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Shell script programming

function name {
commands
}

Or

name() {
commands
}

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Running script in background

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Automate system administration
tasks by scheduling jobs

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Scheduling script to run – at

at [-f filename] time


Time format

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Scheduling script to run – at

at send output of the script via mail

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Scheduling script to run – at

List pending jobs

Remove job

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Scheduling script to run – cron table

min hour dayofmonth month dayofweek command

Command Description
$ crontab –l List all the entries on the cron table of your
user
$ export Set the EDITOR variable value to vi editor
EDITOR=vi for using when edit the crontab
$ crontab –e Edit the crontab with the EDITOR pre set

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Time for labs

Execise 22: Writing scripts – Part 3

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Question...!

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