BASH/C2/Globbing-and-Export-statement/English
Title of script: Globbing and Export Statement
Author: FOSSEE and spoken-tutorial team
Keywords: Video tutorial, Globbing, Export statement
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Display Slide | Welcome to this spoken tutorial on Globbing and Export command |
Display Slide | In this tutorial, we will learn about
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Prerequisites
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To follow this tutorial,
You should be familiar with Linux Operating System
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System Requirements |
For this tutorial I am using
GNU Bash version 4 or above is recommended to practise this tutorial. |
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Globbing |
Let us start with an introduction to globbing.
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Let us understand this with the help of an example. | |
Press Ctrl+Alt+T | Open the terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T keys. |
On Terminal>> Type ls *.sh>> Press Enter | On the Terminal type,
ls space asterix dot sh and press Enter. |
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*.sh |
It matches all the files having .sh extension in the present directory.
<<PAUSE>> |
Highlight:
Output:
Array.sh comm.sh data.sh if.sh |
Here we can see that all the sh files are listed. |
On Terminal>> Type ls c*.sh>> Press Enter | Next, on the Terminal type,
ls space c asterix dot sh and press Enter. |
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c*.sh |
It will match all the files starting with character 'c' & having sh extension.
<<PAUSE>> |
Output:
Highlight: comm.sh |
We can see that all files starting with character 'c' and extension sh. |
On Terminal>> Type ls [a-c]*.sh>> Press Enter | Now on the Terminal, type,
ls space opening square bracket a, hyphen, c closing square bracket asterix dot sh and press Enter. |
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[a-c]* |
This will match and display the files starting with letter a or b or c.
<<PAUSE>> |
Output:
Highlight: array.sh comm.sh |
Observe the output.
We see a list of all files starting with character a or b or c. And these files have sh extension. |
On Terminal>> Type ls [^a-c]* .sh>> Press Enter | Next, let's go ahead and type
ls space opening square bracket caret symbol a hyphen c closing square bracket asterix dot sh and press Enter. |
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[^a-c]*.sh |
This will match all the filenames with extension sh.
But will omit those with starting character as 'a' OR 'b' OR 'c' <<PAUSE>> |
Output:
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if .sh |
Obsere the output.
You will notice that the filenames are not starting with character 'a' or 'b' or 'c'. And the extension is sh . |
On Terminal>> Type ls [Aa]*.sh>> Press Enter | Let's go ahead.
On the Terminal type, ls space opening square bracket capital 'A' and lower case 'a' closing square bracket asterix dot sh and press Enter. |
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[Aa]* |
This will match filenames starting with
upper and lower case of letter 'A'. |
Output:
Highlight: array.sh Array.sh |
Let's see the output.
All filenames starting with upper and lower case ''A'' and extension sh are listed. |
<<PAUSE>>
Now let's see the Export command in BASH.
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Export |
* I have made some change in the language. Pls check if this is okay.In Bash, variables are local to their own Shell.
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Export |
I have made some change in the language.
Pls check if this is okay.The Export command
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We will try to understand this with an example. | |
Switch to Terminal>>
myvar=lion>> Press Enter echo $myvar>> Press Enter
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Switch to the Terminal and type,
myvar equal to lion and press Enter.
echo space dollar symbol myvar and press Enter. |
Output:
lion |
lion is printed.
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Highlight myvar=lion | This was the value assigned to the variable myvar. |
On Terminal>>
Type /bin/bash>> Press Enter
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Now, let's navigate to a new Shell.
slash bin slash bash and press Enter. |
Type
echo $myvar>> Press Enter |
Now let's check the value in the variable myvar.
Type, echo space dollar symbol myvar and press Enter. |
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Output:
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An empty line is printed.
This means that the value assigned to variable myvar was not transferred to this Shell. Also, the variable myvar is local only to the previous Shell and not to current Shell. |
Type exit | We will type exit to get back to our previous Shell.
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[Highlight] | So, to declare variables globally, we have to use the export command. |
On Terminal>> Type export myvar=lion>> Press Enter>>
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Let's learn how.
On the Terminal type, export space myvar equal to lion and press Enter. |
Type
echo $myvar>> Press Enter |
Now type,
echo space dollar symbol myvar and press Enter. |
Output: lion | lion is displayed. |
On Terminal>>Type /bin/bash>> Press Enter | Now, let's navigate to another Shell by typing, slash bin slash bash
and press Enter. |
Type
echo $myvar>> Press Enter |
Now type, echo space dollar symbol myvar and press Enter. |
Output: lion | lion is displayed
This is because we have declared the variable myvar globally. <PAUSE> This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize. Come back to our slides. |
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Summary |
In this tutorial we learnt,
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Assignment |
Write a Bash script
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Acknowledgement |
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It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India More information on this Mission is available at: http://spoken-tutorial.org\NMEICT-Intro |
The script has been contributed by FOSSEE and Spoken-Tutorial team.
Thank you for joining.
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