[TriLUG] Meeting 14 August: Bash Shell

[Bill Farrow]

Topic: Bash Shell
Presenter: Brian Gerard
When: Thursday, 14th August 2014, 7pm (pizza from 6.45pm)
Where: NC State Engineering Building II Room 1021, Centennial Campus
Parking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm
Webpage: http://trilug.org/2014-08-14/bash

Presentation Synopis:
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As Linux users, we spend a lot of our time on the command line, in the
shell. And the most popular shell in Linux-land is bash, GNU's
Bourne-Again shell. Many users never move beyond the simple execution
of a few well-known commands, but there is a lot more that can be done
if you learn how.

In this talk, we will go over some less-frequently-used options to
some well-known commands and show how they can be put together into
more powerful command line constructs. From there, we will explore
some of the more useful built-in features of bash and demonstrate how
they can be assembled into new commands.

The goal is to give the audience a glimpse into the real power of
bash, along with some guidance on how to incorporate some of that
power into their own environments and daily workflows.


About the Speaker:
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Brian Gerard has been working with various *nixes, and Linux
specifically, since the mid-'90s, as a Systems Administrator, a
Software Engineer, and an end user. After eight years developing abuse
defenses for Yahoo! and training their engineers, he now uses his
expertise doing deployment automation and security work for WebAssign.

Whatever the role, throughout his career he has found the shell to be
an invaluable tool; first using csh, eventually moving to tcsh, and
finally (after a friend made it his personal mission to get him to
switch), bash. His startup files are the stuff of legend, he has more
aliases than your average mafioso, and his prompt decorations have
been known to bring tears of joy to the eyes of even the most jaded of
sysadmins.

Workshop ?
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We might co-host a workshop on Bash a few days after this
presentation. Date, time, and location to be decided. Please let the
TriLUG Steering Committee know if you would like to participate.