Training · Linux fundamentals

The analogy. A city with one rule: everything is an address. Files, disks and even running processes have a path, which is why the same three tools can inspect all of them.

The shell is the classroom: the lecture behind this lab covers the mental model, the commands you are about to use, and the four things that usually go wrong.

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Shell Scripting: Your First Script

Intermediate18 min0/3 activities

Create a script file, give it a shebang and the execute bit - the anatomy of every script.

Activities

  1. 01Create /opt/app/backup.sh

    Create the file that will hold your script.

  2. 02Start it with the shebang #!/bin/bash

    The first line must be #!/bin/bash.

  3. 03Make /opt/app/backup.sh executable

    It must have an execute bit set.

student@ophir-lab — linux-script-01
bash 5.2 · x86_64 (wasm)isolated · no network egress