How to Automate a Process with Bash
by Rob Richardson
About Me
Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He's a frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks on https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on twitter at @rob_rich.
Why Bash?
Which shell?
Which shell?
Demo
Running commands from bash shell
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Recursively count the number of files in the directory
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Submit the JSON data to the API
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Download weather forecast for location
Level-up with Bash
Helpful shell commands
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Parse report:
- copy report from file share
- print sum of column 8
- print line count
- error if file not found
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DevOps build:
- git checkout latest
- docker build & push
- start on kubernetes
How do we automate this?
With bash scripts.