Scripting Bash

These are the slides, links and notes for my presentation “Scripting Bash” at MacSysAdmin 2017 in Göteborg.

You can find the entire Presentation as a Keynote document here.

You can find the session’s video here: MacSysAdmin 2017 Session Documentation page (Direct link to video)

List available shells on macOS: cat /etc/shells

Change user shell: chsh -s /path/to/shell

Other Shells

• Bash Project Page
• Bash versions on TLDP:Advanced Bash Scripting
• bash4 installer package on Rudix

Fish Shell

XKCD:

• Automation
• Is it worth the time?

General Links

• Shell Scripts Matter – Thibaut Rousseau: main inspiration for this talk
• launchd
• outset
• “Packaging for Apple Administrators” by Armin Briegel
• Where PATHs come from
• TLDP: Quoting
• Shell Parameter Expansion
• ShellCheck
• ssh-installer
• Terminal-Finder Interaction contains some examples on how to integrate AppleScript/osascript with bash
• List of Python MacAdmin Tools – Tim Sutton

Git and Github

• Official git documentation, including the free book “Pro Git” by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub (iBooks)
• Try Git Tutorial (by GitHub) Nice broswer based interactive tutorial
• GitHub Guides
• Think Like (a) Git
• Git Section on Free Programming Books

Books

Shell and Terminal

• “Learning Unix for OS X: Going Deep With the Terminal and Shell” by Dave Taylor, Amazon US UK DE
• “Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal” by Joe Kissell, iBooks, Amazon US UK DE
• Scripting OS X: Terminal Primer

Bash Scripting

• “Classic Shell Scripting” by Arnold Robbins and Nelson H. F. Beebe, iBooks, Amazon US UK DE
• “Learning the bash Shell: Unix Shell Programming” by Cameron Newham, iBooks, Amazon US UK DE
• “bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users” by Carl Albing, JP Vossen, Cameron Newham, iBooks, Amazon US UK DE
• also, check out the bash section on free programming books

AppleScript

• “AppleScript 1-2-3” by Sal Soghoian, Bill Cheeseman, iBooks, Amazon US UK DE
• AppleScript Language Guide (Apple Developer Documentation)

Python

• Dive into Python
• Python section on Free Programming Books
• “Learning Python” by Fabrizion Romano (free eBook)
• “Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming” (O’Reilly) by Mark Lutz, iBooks, Amazon US UK DE

Swift

• Apple’s Swift Playgrounds for iPad: very basic, but entertaining entry level coding
• The Swift Programming Language (Apple), free iBook
• “Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide” by Matthew Mathias, John Gallagher, Amazon US UK DE
• “Hacking with Swift” by Paul Hudson, free online or buy on iBooks