Scripting Course — October 2020
Do it yourself easier than in Windows

Understanding "Alohomora" and "awk '!seen[$0]++'"

Syllabus

• Session I (October 2): Scripting Philosophy mdash; Introduction to Bash Scripting Tutorial for Beginners (including contextual relation with the operating system).
• Session II (October 9): Variables, loops, flow control, Bash arithmetic and tests. Programs: seq, cmp and convert.
• Session III (October 16): Named pipes, parameters, variables expansion and return codes. Regular expressions. Programs: find.
• Session IV (October 23): Cases, functions and advanced tests. More on regular expressions.
• Session V (October 30): Controlling interactive programs from a BASH script. Programs: file, rsync, gnuplot, tr, grep and sed.
• Session VI (November 6): awk; program batches and putting titles to movies.

Bash Scripting Tutorial for Beginners

• Scripting Philosophy
• Recordatori de comandes bàsiques de Linux agrupades per temes.
• Bash Scripting Tutorial for Beginners for contextual relation with the operating system
• BASH Programming − Introduction HOW−TO
• One line basic loop examples and batch commands
• Worked examples — learning by observation of cases
• if-then-else ladder dangerous example
• Almost not a script with an advanced usage of the 'find' program
• Demonstration BASH script on the use of parameters, shift and exit codes
• A real BASH script to compile C and C++ programs with gcc (treating options)
• A sincronization script and its shadowed-thematic version
• BASH script to convert data (two columns — x and y) into a 2-D picture using gnuplot
• Introducing advanced tools like grep and sed by examples
• A simple example with grep and its shadowed-thematic version
• How to use the grep command in Linux/Unix
• A simple example with sed and its shadowed-thematic version
• Useful one-line scripts for sed.
• AWK
• The file observ.txt
• The awk script filtre.awk
• Parallelization by batches of programs by direct interaction with the OS
• The starting C program: Mandelbrot-OnePoint.c
• The segmentation task script Mandelbrot-SeveralLines.sh
• The starting and main script Mandelbrot-batch.sh
• The script to join the data and produce the picture Mandelbrot-picture.gnuplot.sh
• The final picture: MandelbrotSet.png



• Other example scripts
• A simple example with awk
• Handy one-line scripts for awk.
• An advanced example "con tutti" and its shadowed-thematic version

Previous Scripting Courses

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