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The Complete Guide to Bash Programming

Exercise: Bash Features

Explore and practice advanced Bash features including command chaining with logical operators, file copying, archiving, deleting, and logging outcomes. Understand how to write clean, multi-line Bash commands to manage file operations effectively.

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Practice

Write the command that implements the following algorithm:

  1. Copy the /usr/share/doc/bash/README file to the home directory.

  2. Archive the copied ~/README file.

  1. Delete the copied ~/README file.

Each step takes place only if the previous one succeeds. We write the result of each step to the log file result.txt.

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Solution

Let’s implement the algorithm step by step. The first action is to copy the README file to the user’s home directory like so:

cp /usr/share/doc/bash/README ~

We use the && operator and the echo ...