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FIT9018: Week 10

Week 10’s lecture was a continuation from Week 9’s introduction to shell scripting. The tutorial this week was closely correlated to the lecture material for weeks 9 and 10.

Ubuntu Shell

Pearl of the Week: Test function in shell scripts. + /dev/null (trash bin for script outputs)

if [ $var1 = $var2 ]
then
echo var1 and var2 are the same
else
echo var1 and var2 are different
fi

We had a chance to make some scripts based on the constructs and operators that we learnt from the lecture:

[To be uploaded]

A basic but detailed guide to shell scripting: http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/

An advanced guide to shell scripting:  http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

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