TOPIC 3 - The power of the command line

3.1 Archiving Files on the Command Line

• Compression Tools
• Archiving Tools
• Managing ZIP files
  • Guided exercises 3.1
  • Explorational exercises 3.1

3.2 Searching and Extracting Data from Files

• I O Redirection
• Command Line Pipes
  • Guided exercises 3.2 Lesson1
  • Explorational exercises 3.2 Lesson1
• Searching within Files with grep
• Regular Expressions
  • Guided exercises 3.2 Lesson2
  • Explorational exercises 3.2 Lesson2

3.3 Turning Commands into a Script

• Printing Output
• Making a Script Executable
• Commands and PATH
• Execute Permissions
• Defining the Interpreter
• Shell Variables
• Using Quotes with Variables
• Arguments
• Returning the Number of Arguments
• Conditional Logic
  • Guided exercises 3.3 Lesson1
  • Explorational exercises 3.3 Lesson1
• Exit Codes
• Handling Many Arguments
• For Loops
• Using Regular Expressions to Perform Error Checking
  • Guided exercises 3.2 Lesson2
  • Explorational exercises 3.2 Lesson2

File-Directory conditionals