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The Basics of Shell Scripting

This repository contains the basics of shell scripting with a particular emphasis on the Bourne Again Shell popularly known as Bash. It scratches the surface of some of the basic shell commands that can execute a shell script in the light of the following:

• The shell command that prints the absolute path name of the current working directory of a shell script.
• The shell command that lists the contents of the current directory of a shell script.
• The shell command that changes the working directory to the user’s home directory of a shell script.
• The shell command that displays the contents of the current directory of a shell script, in a long format.
• The shell command that displays the contents of a script's current directory, including hidden files starting with dot (.).
• The shell command that displays the contents of a shell script's current directory such as the long format that shows the user and group IDs of a file or directory alongside the hidden ones starting with a dot(.).
• The shell command that creates the subdirectory of a shell script.
• It looks at the shell command that moves a file from one directory to another.
• It also looks at the shell commands that delete, move, change, create links, copy, and prints the type of a file or directory.