Bash for Beginners

Overview

These Microsoft Developer YouTube series is designed to help get you up to speed on Bash.

These three series on Channel 9 and YouTube are designed to help get you up to speed on Bash. Bash is considered a universal language when it comes to cloud computing and programming. Many languages support Bash commands to pass data and information and when it comes to the Cloud, all platforms support using it to interact with your environment.

Even though we won't cover everything there is to know about this language in this course, we want to make sure we give you the foundation on scripting in Bash. At the end of the course, you'll be able to create your own scripts and automate tasks with the help of Bash.

What you'll learn

What is a terminal
Setting up our environment
Getting help
Navigating the Bash terminal
Listing content
Finding files
Working with directories and files
Viewing files
Environment variables
Redirection and Pipelines
Modifying File permissions
What is a Bash script?
What are variables in Bash?
What are Conditional Statements in Bash?
What Are Case Statements In Bash?
What are Functions in Bash?
What are Loops in Bash?
How to write a Bash Script

Prerequisites

GitHub account
Azure account Azure is only used in the last video. We will be deploying a resource group.
GitHub codespaces Included in your GitHub account.

Resources

As the goal of these courses is to help get you up to speed on Bash. The next step after completing the videos is to follow a tutorial! Here are a few of our favorites:

Quickstart for Bash in Azure Cloud Shell
Learn to use Bash with the Azure CLI
Create a Linux virtual machine in Azure
Learn more about GitHub Codespaces Monthly Free Tier

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

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