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An Introduction to Shell Scripting
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By Henrique Pinheiro
Developer and author at DigitalOcean.
An Introduction to Shell Scripting

Introduction

This series covers all of the basics of writing shell scripts. It begins by introducing the reader to shell scripting and takes them all the way up to writing conditional statements.

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This tutorial is aimed at teaching you how to write shell scripts for the most variety of purposes. Shell scripts can be used to run multiple commands, a single command with difficult and extensive arguments, or more user friendly interfaces for distributing your work.

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The second part of this tutorial will teach you more basic commands for shell scripts on a VPS. They are responsible for both displaying and gathering information to and from the user.

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In the third part of our Shell Script tutorial, you’ll learn all the “if’s” and “else’s” of bash, and how to use them to your advantage. Conditional statements are indispensable to any useful scripting and full-featured programming language.

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