Unix and Shell Programming for Beginners
- Learn the basics of Unix
- Learn the basics of Shell programming
- Only requirement is a computer with broadband (Nice to have own Linux OS)
- Willingness to learn outside the course
- Interest in programming
This course will take you through the basics of Unix and the basics of Shell programming in 8 simple chapters. Each chapter is further divided into small lessons that work around simple concepts.
If you already know programming, this course will be a breeze. If you don’t know programming, worry not, the course is structured in a way that even the beginner can pick up things.
This course will set you up for more advanced learning not just in Unix and Shell programming, but other languages like C, C++, Java that have their roots in Unix
Sample of reviews from students:
Danny Schell – “Excellent introduction to Unix command line and scripting”
Terri Doney – “I work for a big tech company. I use unix every day but I wanted more in depth knowledge and this course has taught me a lot.”
Chinmayi Karmalkar – “It is very helpful for a beginner. Simple to understand with clear concept teaching. covers all concepts that we can later read in depth.”
Ian Christie – “Very happy with the course – gives me a nice foundation to work with!”
Ravi – “voice & explanation was very clear.”
Manager-Projects Chandrachur Mukherjee – “Overall a good course. Few points:Â …”
Rahul Parashar – “…nebver the less a very informative vcourse !”
Do remember that this course is backed by 30-day no questions asked money back guarantee from Udemy. So you can be assured that if the course fails to meet your expectations in any way, you can get a refund without questions!
Basic Unix Commands
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1
Introduction to the courseWhat you'll learn from this course
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2
History Of Unix
Students will understand the history of Unix and why it is still relevant today and how it would be useful to them
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3
Unix System Organization
Students will understand the architecture of the Unix system
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4
How to work on the commands and programs?
Students will get a few options by which they can try out the commands and exercises in this course
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5
Introduction to the Unix prompt
Students will understand the Unix command prompt and also various basic rules regarding the Unix system
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6
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Deeper dive into the Unix file system
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7
The Unix File System
Students will understand more about the Unix file system
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8
Simple Unix commands
Students will dip their feet into the world of Unix commands and understand basic commands
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9
Simple commands with options
Students will understand how the options work with commands and we'll see a few examples of this
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10
File Permissions
Students will learn about file permissions and how to change them
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11
Wildcards and File and Directory related commands
Students will learn about wildcards and file and directory related commands
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12
Misc Commands
Students will learn about a few miscellaneous commands
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13
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Advanced commands
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14
Inode and storage of files
Students will learn about Inodes and how files are stored in the Unix file system
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15
Disk related commands
Students will learn about disk related commands
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16
Some more disk and file commands
Students will learn about a few more disk and file related commands
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17
Quiz for the section
Basic Shell Programming
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18
Introduction to I/O Redirection
Students will understand the basic concepts of I/O Redirection and Piping
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19
Introduction to Piping
Students will explore a few commands that uses I/O Redirection and Piping
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20
Processes and cron jobs
Students will learn about cron jobs and processes
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21
Introduction to the vi editor
Students will learn about the vi editor
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22
Quiz for the section
Substitutions, Logical operators and loops
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23
Our first program "Hello World"
Students will create their first shell program
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24
Variables
Students will understand what a variable is and how it can be used in their programs
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25
Special variables
Students will learn about special types of variables in this lesson
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26
If-else construct
Students will learn about the If-Else construct
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27
Nested If-Else
Students will understand the slightly more complex Nested If-Else construct
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28
Quiz for the section
Arrays and File operations
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29
Substitutions
Students will learn about substitutions or special characters
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30
Introduction to logical operators
Students will learn about logical operators in this lesson
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31
for loops
Students will understand the concepts of loops
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32
while loops
Students will learn about while loops
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33
select loop and switch case
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34
Programs that combine what we've learnt so far
Students will learn about a program that combines If-Else and Logical Operators and Loops in this lesson
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35
Quiz for the section
Advanced Programming techniques
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36
Arrays
Students will learn about arrays and how it can be used in their programs
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37
Reading from a file
Students will learn how to read from a file in this lesson
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38
Writing to a file
Students will learn to write to a file in this lesson
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39
File operations within a shell script
Students will learn a program that combines reading and writing from files (along with some other operators that we learnt so far)
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40
Quiz for the section
Bonus and Example programs
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41
Trapping signals
Students will learn about Unix signals and how to use them in their programs
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42
Functions
Students will learn about functions and how it can be used to simplify programming
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43
Executing multiple scripts
Students will learn how to execute multiple scripts within a program
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44
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