Scripting

Simple coding and execution of bash commands. For more details see links

Motivation and why

Common tasks that need to be executed with doing lots of commands ie automation

• start up an app, or docker container, using a specific version

• bring down an app or container

• get some stats, ie git commits for certain stories

• Small tasks that dont need to be run on java or used in production

links

• https://superuser.com/questions/414965/when-to-use-bash-and-when-to-use-perl-python-ruby

Structure

• file extension is .sh

• At top of the file should have #!/bin/bash

running script

• ./<name of file>

• ./<path from current directoy/<name of file>

Links

• https://ryanstutorials.net/bash-scripting-tutorial/
• https://devhints.io/bash
• http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bash_Shell_Scripting
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)

documentation

• https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashref.html
• https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/bash.1.html