Tutorial12: Shell Scripting - Part 2

ADDITIONAL SHELL SCRIPTING

Main Objectives of this Practice Tutorial

• Learn about additional logic control-flow statements if-else and if-elif-else

• Learn additional uses of the for loop control-flow statement.

• Learn the purpose of command substitution and how it can be used with control-flow statements

• List and explain the purpose of several start-up files

Tutorial Reference Material

Course Notes		Linux Command/Shortcut Reference		YouTube Videos
Course Notes: PDF | PPTX		Additional Control Flow Statements if-else if-elif-else for Loop while Loop	Startup Files Purpose Examples	Brauer Instructional Videos:

KEY CONCEPTS

Additional Logic Statements

Example of how an if-else statement works.

if-else Statements

If the test condition returns a TRUE value, then the Linux Commands between
then and else statements are executed.

If the test returns a FALSE value, then the the Linux Commands between
the else and fi statements are executed.

Example:

num1=5
num2=10
if test $num1 –lt $num2
then
   echo “Less Than”
else
echo    “Greater Than or Equal to”
fi

Example of how an if-elif-else statement works.

if-elif-else Statements

If the test condition returns a TRUE value, then the Linux Commands between
then and else statements are executed.

If the test returns a FALSE value, then a new condition is tested,
and action is taken if the result is TRUE . Eventually, an action will be taken
when the final test condition is FALSE

Example:

num1=5
num2=10
if test $num1 –lt $num2
then    echo “Less Than”
elif test $num1 –gt $num2
then
   echo “Greater Than”
else    echo “Equal to”
fi

Additional Loop Statements

Command Substitution command substitution is a facility that allows a command to be run and its output to be pasted back
on the command line as arguments to another command.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_substitution

Examples:

command1 $(command2)
command1 [arguments from command2 output]

for Loop using Command Substitution

Let’s issue the for loop with a list using command substitution. In the example below, we will use command substitution to issue the ls command and have that output (filenames) become arguments for the for loop.

Example

for x in $(ls)
do
   echo “The item is: $x”
done

Using Startup Files

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INVESTIGATION 1: ADDITIONAL LOGIC STATEMENTS

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INVESTIGATION 2: ADDITIONAL LOOPING STATEMENTS

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INVESTIGATION 3: USING STARTUP FILES

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LINUX PRACTICE QUESTIONS

The purpose of this section is to obtain extra practice to help with quizzes, your midterm, and your final exam.

Here is a link to the MS Word Document of ALL of the questions displayed below but with extra room to answer on the document to simulate a quiz:

https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~murray.saul/uli101/uli101_week12_practice.docx

Your instructor may take-up these questions during class. It is up to the student to attend classes in order to obtain the answers to the following questions. Your instructor will NOT provide these answers in any other form (eg. e-mail, etc).

Review Questions:

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