Bash scripting commands are as varied as the command set that Unix's terminal has. Bash commands can also use parameters, expanding their usability and making them a powerful way of controlling Linux.

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS.

Shell scripts are not compiled — at least, not typically — so the shell only reads what it needs to do the work. That means if your script is careful to exit, you can add as much “garbage ...

Working knowledge of Linux command line operations, shell programming, Git, makefiles. Completion of ECEA 5305 Linux System Programming and Introduction to Buildroot.