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More importantly, the mini-course includes access to a lab system (login account) for completing the mini-course's 5 lab exercises. For the lab exercises, you will write and run shell scripts that reinforce key concepts as you study them. Having access to a lab system also allows you to practice writing other scripts to prepare you for your interview.
- Creating a Shell Script
- Accessing Data from a Shell Script
- Test Command
- Conditional/Flow Control Statements
- Loop Structures
- Checking Return Codes
(Solutions for the lab exercises are included with the course.)
- Creating and Running a Shell Script
- Accessing Environment Variable Data from a Shell Script
- Accessing Command Line Arguments from a Shell Script
- Using the if-then with the test command
- Using the for Loop