There is lots of books, videos and manuals about bash. So it is hard to tell if one is good or not. By advanced bash I mean regular expressions, complex scripts, and kind-of obscure options of basic commands no beginner tutorial tells about.
There is lots of books, videos and manuals about bash. So it is hard to tell if one is good or not. By advanced bash I mean regular expressions, complex scripts, and kind-of obscure options of basic commands no beginner tutorial tells about.
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Also, adcanced bash is mostly about structuring code for maintainability, exception handling and some good tidbit functions you can easily adapt. Actually a good experience for creating maintianable lower-level code too.
That said, i have a (POSIX) cheatsheet i still regularly use. Most important parts:
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ## exit codes for GNU/Linux ┌──────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Exitcode │ Meaning │ Example │ ├──────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤ │ 1 │ Catchall for general errors, such as "divide by zero" │ let "var1 = 1/0" │ │ 2 │ Misuse of shell builtins: Missing keyword or command. │ empty_function() {} │ │ 126 │ cannot invoke requested command │ /dev/null │ │ 127 │ A utility to be executed was not found │ evho │ │ 128 │ Invalid argument to exit: only integer args in the │ exit 3.14159 │ │ │ range 0 - 255 allowed │ │ │ 128+n │ A command was interrupted by signal n (128 + n) │ kill -9 $PPID returns 137 (128 + 9) │ │ 130 │ Script terminated by Ctrl+C: fatal error signal 2, │ Ctl-C │ │ │ (130 = 128 + 2, see above) │ │ │ 255* │ Exit status out of range: exit takes only integer args │ exit -1 │ │ │ in the range 0 - 255 │ │ └──────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘ #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ## Numeric True/False OR ||: 1 + 1 = 1 TRUE || TRUE = TRUE 1 + 0 = 1 TRUE || FALSE = TRUE 0 + 0 = 0 FALSE || FALSE = FALSE AND &&: 1 * 1 = 1 TRUE && TRUE = TRUE 1 * 0 = 0 TRUE && FALSE = FALSE 0 * 0 = 0 FALSE && FALSE = FALSE Btw; lowercase true/false are special in that they set the respective state, standalone or as argument. Said state can be set to variables too, for constructs like: var=true; $var && echo True #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ## Variable-Expansion ┌───────────────────────┬───────┬───────┬───────────┐ │ VAR is: │ unset │ empty │ non-empty │ ├───────────────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────┤ │ [ -z "${VAR}" ] │ true │ true │ false │ │ [ -z "${VAR+set}" ] │ true │ false │ false │ │ [ -z "${VAR-unset}" ] │ false │ true │ false │ │ [ -n "${VAR}" ] │ false │ false │ true │ │ [ -n "${VAR+set}" ] │ false │ true │ true │ │ [ -n "${VAR-unset}" ] │ true │ false │ true │ └───────────────────────┴───────┴───────┴───────────┘ Btw, [ -z $var ] && [ -n $var ] || are *not* the same; the first ist exact match, rather false, the second forgiving, rather true. #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ## Parameter expansion # Use these in place of awk or sed calls when possible ┌─────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Parameter │ Description │ ├─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ ${VAR/PATTERN/REPLACE} │ Substitute first pattern with replacement │ │ ${VAR//PATTERN/REPLACE} │ Substitute all pattern with replacement │ │ ${VAR#PATTERN} │ Remove shortest match of pattern from start │ │ ${VAR##PATTERN} │ Remove longest match of pattern from start │ │ ${VAR%PATTERN} │ Remove shortest match of pattern from end │ │ ${VAR%%PATTERN} │ Remove longest match of pattern from end │ │ ${#VAR} │ Length of var in characters │ └─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Summary: * String manipulation with ${VAR#PREFIX}, ${VAR##PREFIX}, ${VAR%SUFFIX} and ${VAR%%SUFFIX}. * Conditional treatment of unset variables with ${VAR-DEFAULT}, ${VAR=DEFAULT}, ${VAR+FALLBACK} and ${VAR?MESSAGE} as well as the unset-or-empty variants with :-, :=, :+ and :?. * Variable length with ${#VAR}. filename=/foo/bar.baz "${filename%/*}" # /foo # dirname "${filename%.*}" # /foo/bar # filename "${filename##*/}" # bar.baz # basename "${filename##*.}" # baz # file-extBtw, if it goes over 100 to 150 loc, go Python at least. No matter how disciplined you are or how clean your code is, it gets messy.