The document discusses UNIX shell scripts, including what they are, their components, how to invoke them, examples of arguments, variables, command forms, and simple commands that can be used in shell scripts. It provides examples of shell scripts that perform tasks like iterating through a string and checking for available disk space.

1. UNIX Shell Script (1) Dr. Tran, Van Hoai Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering HCMC Uni. of Technology [email_address]

3. Components of a script #!/bin/sh rm -f /tmp/listing.tmp > /dev/null 2>&1 touch /tmp/listing.tmp # This is a comment ls -l [a-z]*.doc | sort > /tmp/listing.tmp lpr -Ppostscript_1 /tmp/listing.tmp rm -f /tmp/listing.tmp Shell in use (sh, bash, csh) Comment Command

9. Filename metacharacters Current working directory ( $PWD ) ~+ Previous working directory ( $OLDPWD ) ~- Home directory of user name ~ name Home directory of the current user ~ Match any character not enclosed as above [! abc ...] Match any one of the enclosed characters; a hyphen can specify a range (e.g., a-z, A-Z, 0–9) [ abc ...] Match any single character ? Match any string of zero or more characters *

14. Variables (1) Use var if set, otherwise, print value and exit ${ var :? value } Use value of var is set, otherwise use nothing ${ var :+ value } Use the length of var ${# var } Use the number of positional arguments ${#*} or ${#@} Use var if set, otherwise, user value and assign it to var ${ var := value } Use var if set, otherwise, use value ${ var :- value } Use value of var ${ var } Set variable to value var=value …

15. Variables (2) Same as # pattern . Remove longest matching ${ var ## pattern } Same as %pattern . Remove longest matching ${ var %% pattern } Use value of var after removing pattern from the right. Remove shortest matching ${ var % pattern } Use value of var after removing pattern from the left. Remove shortest matching ${ var # pattern }

16. Command forms OR cmd1 || cmd2 AND; cmd1, then cmd2 if (cmd succeeds) cmd1 && cmd2 POSIX shell arithmetic substitution cmd $((expression)) POSIX Command substitution (nesting is allowed) cmd1 $(cmd2) Command substitution cmd1 `cmd2` Pipe cmd1 | cmd2 NOT; change exit status ! cmd Commands as a group in a subshell ( cmd1 ; cmd2 ) Commands as a group in current shell { cmd1 ; cmd2 } Multiple commands on the same line cmd1 ; cmd2

18. Simple commands Create date strings date Evaluate variables eval Transform characters tr 'a' 'b' Simple arithmetic processor expr Predicate or conditional processor [( test )] Access lines in files head/tail Chop up a text by strings or characters cut Get directory name from path string dirname Get file name from path string basename Search for regular expressions grep Sort lines sort