This is a quick tutorial on how to use coding-esque techniques in order to create automation of terminal commands so lets get down to the basics!

Believe it or not but if you are relatively comfortable with terminal commands you already have the tough part taken care of, the part you need to work on is the notorious coding part. These are If Statements, Functions, Arrays, Variables, Variable Substitution, Loops, and regex. Now these are the core fundaments of any coding language.

These tools allow you to create a more robust script.

For example all a script is doing is going line by line and executing the commands you have given it.

In your script you can type echo "Hello World" and it will execute it the same as it would if you typed echo "Hello World" in the terminal

Note: There are slight differences in how the script can do depending on if the command must be invoked

Example: In a script you type tty - Shows what terminal console you are on You can type it in the terminal and it will show something like /dev/tty1 When you execute the script from your terminal it will run as if you typed it in the terminal However say you set the script to run after each reboot, the response is gonna say "not a tty" because it wasnt ran from a terminal Morale of the story is when you want the system to run it test it more.

Where should I start with the files given?

In most cases I gave you two files, one being .sh and the other being .txt

.txt contains explainations of the concept of the topic .sh contains the scripting syntax and it being in a way to execute.

Feel Free to bounce around, but if you dont know what a variable is, the start off with VariableManipulation.sh/.txt