Mastering Unix Shell Scripting: BASH, KORN Shell, and KORN 93 Shell Scripting for Programmers, System Administrators and UNIX Guru’s, Second Edition | by Randall K. Michael | ISBN: 9780470183014. IT Books.

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Mastering Unix Shell Scripting: BASH, KORN Shell, and KORN 93 Shell Scripting for Programmers, System Administrators and UNIX Guru’s, Second Edition

by Randall K. Michael
ISBN:9780470183014

Guiding you through every detail of writing shell scripts to automate specific tasks, this book will help you build tools that monitor for specific system events and situations, and gain the skills to solve real-world system administration problems.

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Mastering Unix Shell Scripting—BASH, KORN Shell, and KORN 93 Shell Scripting for Programmers, System Administrators and UNIX Guru’s, Second Edition







Introduction
Overview
Overview of the Book and Technology
How This Book Is Organized
Who Should Read this Book
Tools You Will Need
What’s on the Web Site
Summary

Part I – The Basics of Shell Scripting
Chapter 1 – Scripting Quick Start and Review



Case Sensitivity
UNIX Special Characters
Shells
Shell Scripts
Functions
Running a Shell Script
Comments and Style in Shell Scripts
Control Structures
Using break, continue, exit, and return
Here Document
Shell Script Commands
Symbol Commands
Variables
Command-Line Arguments
shift Command
Special Parameters $* and $@
Double Quotes, Forward Tics, and Back Tics
Using awk on Solaris
Using the echo Command Correctly
Math in a Shell Script
Built-In Mathematical Functions
File Permissions, suid and sgid Programs
Running Commands on a Remote Host
Setting Traps
User-Information Commands
ps Command
Communicating with Users
Uppercase or Lowercase Text for Easy Testing
Check the Return Code
Time-Based Script Execution
Output Control
Catching a Delayed Command Output
Fastest Ways to Process a File Line-by-Line
Using Command Output in a Loop
Mail Notification Techniques
Creating a Progress Indicator
Working with Record Files
Creating a Pseudo-Random Number
Checking for Stale Disk Partitions in AIX
Automated Host Pinging
Highlighting Specific Text in a File
Keeping the Printers Printing
Automated FTP File Transfer
Using rsync to Replicate Data
Capturing a List of Files Larger than $MEG
Capturing a User’s Keystrokes
Using the bc Utility for Floating-Point Math
Number Base Conversions
Create a Menu with the select Command
Removing Repeated Lines in a File
Removing Blank Lines from a File
Testing for a Null Variable
Directly Access the Value of the Last Positional Parameter, $#
Remove the Column Headings in a Command Output
Arrays
Testing a String
Summary

Chapter 2 – 24 Ways to Process a File Line-by-Line
Command Syntax
24 Methods to Parse a File Line-by-Line
Timing Each Method
What about Using Command Input Instead of File Input?
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 3 – Automated Event Notification
Basics of Automating Event Notification
Problems with Outbound Mail
Dial-Out Modem Software
SNMP Traps
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 4 – Progress Indicators Using a Series of Dots, a Rotating Line, or Elapsed Time
Overview
Indicating Progress with a Series of Dots
Indicating Progress with a Rotating Line
Indicating Progress with Elapsed Time
Combining Feedback Methods
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Part II – Scripts for Programmers, Testers, and Analysts
Chapter 5 – Working with Record Files
What Is a Record File?
Processing the Record Files
Tasks for Records and Record Files
The Merge Process
Putting It All Together
Other Things to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 6 – Automated FTP Stuff
Syntax
Automating File Transfers and Remote Directorys
What about Encryption?
Other Things to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 7 – Using rsync to Efficiently Replicate Data
Syntax
Generic rsync Shell Script
Replicating Multiple Directories with rsync
Replicating Multiple Filesystems with rsync
Replicating an Oracle Database with rsync
rsync Copy Shell Script
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 8 – Automating Interactive Programs with Expect and Autoexpect
Downloading and Installing Expect
The Basics of Talking to an Interactive Script or Program
Using autoexpect to Automatically Create an Expect Script
Working with Variables
What about Conditional Tests?
Using Expect Scripts with Sun Blade Chassis and JumpStart
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 9 – Finding Large Files and Files of a Specific Type
Overview
Syntax
Remember That File and Directory Permissions Thing
Don’t Be Shocked by the Size of the Files
Creating the Script
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 10 – Process Monitoring and Enabling Pre-Processing, Startup, and Post-Processing Events
Overview
Syntax
Monitoring for a Process to Start
Monitoring for a Process to End
Monitor and Log as a Process Starts and Stops
Timed Execution for Process Monitoring, Showing Each PID, and Timestamp with Event and Timing Capability
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 11 – Pseudo-Random Number and Data Generation
What Makes a Random Number?
The Methods
Shell Script to Create Pseudo-Random Numbers
Creating Unique Filenames
Creating a File Filled with Random Characters
Other Things to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 12 – Creating Pseudo-Random Passwords
Randomness
Creating Pseudo-Random Passwords
Syntax
Building the Password-Creation Script
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 13 – Floating-Point Math and the bc Utility
Syntax
Creating Some Shell Scripts Using bc
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 14 – Number Base Conversions
Syntax
Scripting the Solution
An Easy, Interactive Script to Convert Between Bases
Using the bc Utility for Number Base Conversions
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 15 – hgrep: Highlighted grep Script
Overview
Reverse Video Control
Building the hgrep.bash Shell Script
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 16 – Monitoring Processes and Applications
Monitoring Local Processes
Remote Monitoring with Secure Shell and Remote Shell
What about Waiting for Something to Complete Executing?
Other Things to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Part III – Scripts for Systems Administrators
Chapter 17 – Filesystem Monitoring
Syntax
Adding Exceptions Capability to Monitoring
Using the MB-of-Free-Space Method
Using MB of Free Space with Exceptions
Percentage Used—MB Free and Large Filesystems
Running Filesystem Scripts on AIX, Linux, HP-UX, OpenBSD, and Solaris
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 18 – Monitoring Paging and Swap Space
Overview
Syntax
Creating the Shell Scripts
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 19 – Monitoring System Load
Overview
Installing the System-Statistics Programs in Linux
Syntax
Scripting the Solutions
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 20 – Monitoring for Stale Disk Partitions (AIX-Specific)
Overview
AIX Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
The Commands and Methods
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignment

Chapter 21 – Turning On/Off SSA Identification Lights
Syntax
The Scripting Process
Other Things to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignment

Chapter 22 – Automated Hosts Pinging with Notification of Failure
Syntax
Creating the Shell Script
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 23 – Creating a System-Configuration Snapshot
Overview
Syntax
Creating the Shell Script
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignment

Chapter 24 – Compiling, Installing, Configuring, and Using sudo
The Need for sudo
Configuring sudo on Solaris
Downloading and Compiling sudo
Compiling sudo
Configuring sudo
Using sudo
Using sudo in a Shell Script
Logging to the syslog with sudo
The sudo Log File
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 25 – Print-Queue Hell: Keeping the Printers Printing
System V versus BSD versus CUPS Printer Systems
Putting It All Together
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 26 – Those Pesky Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Audits
What to Expect
How to Work with the Auditors
What the Auditors Want to See
Some Handy Commands
Using the dirname and basename Commands
Other Things to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 27 – Using Dirvish with rsync to Create Snapshot-Type Backups
Overview
How Does Dirvish Work?
Configuring Dirvish
Performing a Full System Backup
Using Dirvish on the Command Line
A Menu-Interface Shell Script to Control Dirvish
Putting It All Together
Using the dirvish_ctrl Shell Script
Other Things to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments

Chapter 28 – Monitoring and Auditing User Keystrokes
Syntax
Scripting the Solution
Other Options to Consider
Summary
Lab Assignments
A Closing Note from the Author

Appendix A – What’s on the Web Site



Shell Scripts
Functions

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