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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