Bash Fundamentals
Quoting, pipes and redirection — and why a filename with a space breaks a script.
10 lessons · about 78 minutes
What you'll go through
- 01The third time you type the same five commands7 min
- 02The variable that was empty and nobody noticed8 min
- 03The script that breaks when a filename has a space8 min
- 04Why the wildcard matched a file you did not expect8 min
- 05You redirected the output and the errors still appeared8 min
- 06The script said it succeeded and nothing had happened8 min
- 07The if that was true when the file did not exist8 min
- 08The loop that processed 200 files and skipped four8 min
- 09Someone ran your script with no arguments7 min
- 10The script you can leave running unattended8 min
Included in this pack
Fundamentals — Linux, Bash and Git, interactive. Free once you sign up.
