1. Introduction

    System Information

  2. Inter-Process Communication
  3. Signals

    Programming in Various Environments

  4. Script Programming
    1. Script Variables
    2. Test Conditions
    3. Control and Iteration
    4. Commonly used Programs
    5. Shell Capabilities
    6. Example looping script
    7. Example using Variables
    8. Example working with files
    9. Example install script
  5. C and C++ Programming
    1. POSIX System Capabilities
    2. More POSIX
    3. Threads
    4. Mutexes
    5. An example viewmod program
    6. An example serial program
  6. X Programming
  7. Debugging
  8. Credits
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Commonly used Programs in Linux Script files

Some programs supporting script programming:

  • date
  • expr
  • find
  • cd
  • ls
  • pwd
  • mkdir
  • rmdir
  • cat
  • cp
  • csplit
  • ln
  • mv
  • rm
  • split
  • awk
  • cut
  • diff
  • grep
  • head
  • line
  • sed
  • tail
  • uniq
  • touch
  • wc
  • join
  • paste
  • sort
  • tr
  • pr
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