Bash To Basics

Connor McKelvey

What's a Shell?

  • A Unix Program
  • A REPL
  • Command Language
  • *writes function in Terminal*

What is Bash

  • A Replacement for the original Bourne Shell /bin/sh
  • Other Shells
    • Zsh
    • Fish

Unix Philosophy

  • Write programs that do one thing and do it well
  • Write programs to work together
  • Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface

Sound Like Microservices?

​JSON/HTTP being the standard interface

The development of pipes in 1973 formalized the existing principle of stdin-stdout into a philosophy in Version 3 Unix, with older software rewritten to comply. Previously visible in early utilities such as wc, cat, and uniq, McIlroy cites Thompson's grep as what "ingrained the tools outlook irrevocably" in the operating system, with later tools like tr, m4, and sed imitating how grep transforms the input stream.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

Bash Basics

  • Anatomy of a Command
  • Stdout, Stdin
  • https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/bash/
    • Strings, Variables, Command Subsitution

Bash Scripting

  • Shebang and Options
  • chmod +x
  • Inputs, outputs, and functions
  • Exit codes

The Hotness

  • Redirection and Pipes
  • File Descriptors
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