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Gavin Dennett answered on June 1, 2024 Popularity 5/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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1. Choose a shell: Focus on Bash (Unix, Linux, macOS) or PowerShell (Windows).

2. Basic commands:
    - Navigation: cd, pwd, ls
    - File management: mkdir, rm, cp, mv
    - Text processing: cat, echo, grep, sed, awk

3. Variables and data types:
    - Assign and use variables (e.g., name="John" and echo $name)
    - Understand data types (e.g., strings, integers, arrays)

4. Control structures:
    - Conditional statements (if/then/else, case)
    - Loops (for, while, until)
    - Functions

5. Input/Output:
    - Read user input (e.g., read -p "Enter name: " name)
    - Output formatting (e.g., echo, printf)

6. Scripting techniques:
    - Conditional execution (e.g., if [ -f file ]; then ...)
    - Looping through files or arrays
    - Using command substitution (e.g., var=$(command))

7. Debugging and testing:
    - Use echo statements to trace script execution
    - Test scripts with different inputs and scenarios

8. Advanced topics:
    - Regular expressions (regex)
    - Arrays and associative arrays
    - Advanced text processing (e.g., sed, awk, perl)

9. Practice and projects:
    - Automate personal tasks or system administration tasks
    - Create scripts for data processing or file management
    - Experiment with different shell features

Resources:

- Online tutorials and guides (e.g., Bash Guide, PowerShell documentation)
- Books (e.g., "The Linux Command Line" by William Shotts)
- Online communities (e.g., Reddit's r/learnprogramming, r/bash)

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