Basics of using bash, and shell tools for covering several of the most common tasks
Introduction
Most shells have their own scripting language with variables, control flow and its own syntax.
Shell scripting optimized for performing shell-related tasks.
- Creating command pipelines
- Saving results into files
- Reading from standard input are primitives in shell scripting
Catalog
目录- Basics of using bash, and shell tools for covering several of the most common tasks
Assign variables in bash
Syntax:
- Assign variables:
variableName=value
- Access variables' value:
$variableName
Note: variableName = value
will not work if it is interpreted as calling the variableName
program with arguments =
and value
Added: the space character
will perform argument splitting in shell.
SDifferences between '
and "
Strings in bash can be defined with
'
and"
delimiters, they are not equivalent.
-
'
: Only the literal strings -
"
: Will substitude variable values that strings contains
Use functions in bash
mcd () { mkdir -p "$1" cd "$1" }
-
$0
- Name of the script -
$1
to$9
- Arguments to the script.$1
is the first argument and so on. -
$@
- All the arguments -
$#
- Number of arguments -
$?
- Return code of the previous command -
$$
- Process identification number (PID) for the current script -
!!
- Entire last command, including arguments. A common pattern is to execute a command only for it to fail due to missing permissions; you can quickly re-execute the command with sudo by doingsudo !!
-
$_
- Last argument from the last command. If you are in an interactive shell, you can also quickly get this value by typingEsc
followed by.
orAlt+.
Write the scripts
We can type it directly in our shell, but we always prefer to write those commands into a file and execute it.
After writting it into a script(e.g. mcd.sh
), we could use source
to execute and load it.
The next, just give the arguments to the script (e.g. mcd test
), it will works.
bash manner
if
if [ condition ]
then
commands
elif [ condition ]
then
commands
else
commands
fi
case
case variable in
pattern1)
commands
;;
pattern2)
commands
;;
*)
commands
;;
esac
select
select variable in list
do
commands
break
done
for loop
for variable in list
do
commands
done
while loop
while condition
do
commands
done
until loop
until condition
do
commands
done
Stream
- output:
STDOUT
>
- errors :
STDERR
2>
Return code or exit status
- value of
0
-> OK; - anything different from
0
-> error occurred
Operator
- and operator:
&&
- or operator:
||
- seperate commands:
;
-
true
: 0 return code -
false
: 1 return code -
-ne
: not equal
Get the output of a command as a variable
Substitutions
command substitution: $(CMD)
process substitution: <(CMD)
Execute CMD
and place the output in a temporary file and substitute the <()
with that file’s name.
/dev/null
: You can write sth. to it, but all the written things will be discarded.
No need to give arguments one by one
Sometimes, you don't need to give arguments one by one, with the usage of globbing(e.g. *
, ?
, {}
) .
In general, you can just use it by the way of using small regex.
Also, you can use other language(e.g. Python
) to interact with the Shell.
The usage of shebang
We can use the shebang
(e.g. #!/usr/local/bin/python
) to let the Shell know how to run this program.
But, python may not be installed at this path, and you may can't know where they actually lives in your machine, we can use env
to use the PATH
environment variable to resolve such a kind of question.(e.g. #!/usr/bin/env python
)
As writing bash
scripts can be tricky and unintuitive, we can use tools like shellcheck
to help us to find errors in our sh/bash scripts.
Differences between shell functions and scripts
-
Language
- shell functions: The same language as the shell
- scripts: Any language(So it's important to include a shebang for scripts)
-
Load
- shell functions: Loaded once (Slightly fast to load, but whenever you change them you will have to reload their definition)
- scripts: Loaded whenever they are executed
-
execute
-
shell functions: In the current shell environment(Can modify environment variables)
-
scripts: In their own process(Can't modify environment variables)
Scripts will be passed by value environment variables that have been exported using
export
-
-
As with any programming language, functions are a powerful construct to achieve modularity, code reuse, and clarity of shell code
-
Often shell scripts will include their own function definitions.
Shell Tools
Finding how to use commands
-
man
provides a manual page (called manpage) for a command you specify. -
-h
or--help
flags -
:help
or?
(For interactive tools such as the ones based on ncurses) -
tldr
focuses on giving example use cases of a command so you can quickly figure out which options to use.
Finding files
-
find
-
-name
-
-path
pattern -
-type
-
d
: directory -
f
: file
-
-
-mtime
-
-exec
-
-
fd
A simple, fast, and user-friendly alternative tofind
. -
locate
locate
uses a database that is updated usingupdatedb
Finding code(the content of file)
-
grep
grep
is an incredibly valuable shell tool that we will cover in greater detail during the data wrangling lecture.
Finding shell commands(already used)
-
up
-
history
-
history | grep find
-
-
fzf
bindings.
Directory Navigation
tree
-
broot
-
nnn
Shortcut key
- Ctl-A
Moves cursor to beginning of line of text (on the command-line). - Ctl-B
Backspace (nondestructive). - Ctl-C
Break. Terminate a foreground job. - Ctl-D
Log out from a shell (similar to exit).
EOF (end-of-file). This also terminates input from stdin.
When typing text on the console or in anxterm window, Ctl-D erases the character under the cursor. When there are no characters present, Ctl-D logs out of the session, as expected. In an xterm window, this has the effect of closing the window. - Ctl-E
Moves cursor to end of line of text (on the command-line). - Ctl-F
Moves cursor forward one character position (on the command-line). - Ctl-G
BEL. On some old-time teletype terminals, this would actually ring a bell. In an xterm it might beep. - Ctl-H
Rubout (destructive backspace). Erases characters the cursor backs over while backspacing. - Ctl-I
Horizontal tab. - Ctl-J
Newline (line feed). In a script, may also be expressed in octal notation -- '\012' or in hexadecimal -- '\x0a'. - Ctl-K
Vertical tab.
When typing text on the console or in anxterm window, Ctl-K erases from the character under the cursor to end of line. Within a script, Ctl-K may behave differently, as in Lee Lee Maschmeyer's example, below. - Ctl-L
Formfeed (clear the terminal screen). In a terminal, this has the same effect as the clear command. When sent to a printer, a Ctl-L causes an advance to end of the paper sheet. - Ctl-M
Carriage return. - Ctl-N
Erases a line of text recalled from history buffer [8] (on the command-line). - Ctl-O
Issues a newline (on the command-line). - Ctl-P
Recalls last command from history buffer (on the command-line). - Ctl-Q
Resume (XON).
This resumes stdin in a terminal. - Ctl-R
Backwards search for text in history buffer (on the command-line). - Ctl-S
Suspend (XOFF).
This freezes stdin in a terminal. (Use Ctl-Q to restore input.) - Ctl-T
Reverses the position of the character the cursor is on with the previous character (on the command-line). - Ctl-U
Erase a line of input, from the cursor backward to beginning of line. In some settings, Ctl-U erases the entire line of input, regardless of cursor position. - Ctl-V
When inputting text, Ctl-V permits inserting control characters. - Ctl-W
When typing text on the console or in an xterm window, Ctl-W erases from the character under the cursor backwards to the first instance of whitespace. In some settings, Ctl-W erases backwards to first non-alphanumeric character. - Ctl-X
In certain word processing programs, Cuts highlighted text and copies to clipboard. - Ctl-Y
Pastes back text previously erased (with Ctl-U or Ctl-W). - Ctl-Z
Pauses a foreground job.
Substitute operation in certain word processing applications.
EOF (end-of-file) character in the MSDOS filesystem.
Exercises
-
ls -laht --color
-
ls -a
-
ls -h
-
ls -lh
-
ls -lt
-
ls --color
-
-
bash functions
marco
andpolo
-
marco.sh
#!/bin/bash marco(){ path_dir=$(pwd) export path_dir echo "set $path_dir" }
-
polo.sh
#!/bin/bash polo(){ cd "$path_dir" echo -n 'cd to ' && echo "$path_dir" }
-
-
runUFail
-
fail.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash n=$(( RANDOM % 100 )) if [[ n -eq 42 ]]; then echo "Something went wrong" >&2 echo "The error was using magic numbers" exit 1 fi echo "Everything went according to plan"
-
runUFail
#!/bin/bash runUFail(){ ./fail.sh > output.txt 2> error.txt code=$? fail_times=0 while [ $code -ne 1 ] do fail_times=$((fail_times+1)) ./fail.sh >> output.txt 2>> error.txt code=$? done echo "fail times:$fail_times" echo "output.txt:" && cat output.txt echo "error.txt:" && cat error.txt }
-
-
xargs
command which will execute a command using STDIN as arguments.
touch ex{0,1,2,3,4,5,asb,'a b','bb'}.html
find -path "*html" -type f -print0 | ls | xargs -I {} zip output.zip {}
-
find . -type f -mtime -1 | ls -lt
Refferences
- Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide: https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/special-chars.html
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2020/shell-tools/
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