BASH scripting tutorial: Overview of brace expansion | Part 4
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Intro
The Bourne Again Shell (BASH) is one of the available shells for use on Linux operating systems. Bash is quite popular and very practical for automating repetitive and daunting tasks, especially in the realm of software development and deployment.
Bash is present on most (if not all) Linux distributions and is highly useful for automating system administration tasks, DevOps-related tasks (like writing CI/CD pipelines), software development, etc.
Hence, as a software developer, Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, System administrator, Cybersecurity Engineer, or just a Linux User, bash scripting is definitely a skill you would like to add to your toolbox.
On Windows, Git Bash offers a nice alternative to run bash scripts (although limited)
Content
The current part covers brace expansion. Brace expansion generally makes it possible to generate arbitrary strings based on a given pattern or a sequence. It's a powerful BASH feature and allows the generation of mocked files or directories if needed, and also handy to factor out repetitive parts of commands sharing the same prefix or suffix.
Note
If the tutorial happens to be too slow, feel free to speed it up to suit a comfortable pace for you.
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Useful Links
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/man...
https://www.mycompiler.io/
https://gitforwindows.org/
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