Learn about the ability to collect and manipulate terminal settings.
- [Lecturer] Grabbing Information about the Terminal.…In the previous video, we've learned about…visiting aliases.…This video helps in collecting…and manipulating terminal settings.…While writing command line shell scripts,…we'll often need to heavily manipulate…information about the current terminal,…such as the number of columns, rows,…cursor positions, masked password fields,…and so on.…TPUT and STTY are utilities that can be used…for terminal manipulations.…
Let's see how to use them to perform different tasks.…There are specific information you can gather…about the terminal,…which, as ...…Get the number of columns and rows in a terminal…by using these commands.…Now, to print the current terminal name,…use this command.…Then, to use the cursor to a 100, 100 position,…you can enter ...…Set the background color for this terminal…using this command.…N can be a value in the range zero to seven.…
Set the foreground color for text by this command.…N can be a value in the range zero to seven.…To make text bold, use this.…
Sarath Lakshman
Shantanu Tushar
Released
7/17/2017Note: This course was created by Packt Publishing. We are pleased to host this training in our library.
- Printing in the terminal
- Performing math in the Linux shell
- Getting and setting dates
- Working with functions and arguments
- Reading output
- Making comparisons
- Concatenating text
- Finding, editing, generating, and deleting files
- Running parallel processes
- Using regular expressions
- Downloading webpages
- Parsing data from a website
- Finding broken links
- Backing up and archiving
- Transferring files and data through the network
- Monitoring your Linux system
- Gathering data for system administration
Skill Level Intermediate
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1. Shell Something Out
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Printing in the terminal6m 4s
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Math with the shell3m 5s
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Visiting aliases2m 25s
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Debugging the script2m 46s
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Functions and arguments4m 31s
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Comparisons and tests6m 22s
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2. Have a Good Command
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Concatenating with cat5m 30s
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Finding files and file listing18m 46s
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Playing with xargs11m 41s
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Translating with tr6m 51s
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Checksum and verification4m 46s
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Splitting files and data4m 53s
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Automating interactive input4m 10s
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3. File In, File Out
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Generating files of any size4m 24s
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Making files immutable2m 13s
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Using loopback files6m 15s
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Printing the directory tree3m 18s
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4. Texting and Driving
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Using regular expressions9m 25s
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5. Tangled Web? Not at All
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Downloading from a web page5m 15s
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A primer on cURL7m 11s
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Image crawler and downloader3m 36s
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Web photo album generator1m 54s
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6. The Backup Plan
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Archiving with tar10m 33s
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Archiving with cpio2m 31s
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Compressing data with gzip5m 27s
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Faster archiving with pbzip23m 15s
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Backup snapshots with rsync6m 55s
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7. The Old-Boy Network
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Let us ping4m 53s
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Creating arbitrary sockets2m 45s
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8. Put on the Monitor's Cap
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Logging with syslogd2m 44s
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Monitoring disk activity1m 41s
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9. Administration Calls
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Gathering system information1m 57s
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Scheduling with cron7m 7s
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User administration script5m 16s
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