Gain insights into the intricacies of the Bash shell, ideal for beginners. Delve into essential skills with interactive learning designed to ensure lasting knowledge without requiring prior experience.

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A course for anyone interested in understanding all aspects of the bash shell. Designed for use by beginners, it assumes as little knowledge as possible but teaches you all the intricacies of bash it took me decades to learn by trial and error. 

The interactive nature of the course instills the knowledge in a way you will not forget!

Master the Bash Shell


### How Important is this Lesson?

**Tests** are a fundamental part of bash scripting, whether it’s on the command line in one-liners, or in much larger scripts or chains of commands.

### What Are Bash Tests?

A test in bash is not a test that your program works. It's a
way of writing an expression that can be true or false.

Tests in bash are constructs that allow you to implement *conditional expressions*. They use square brackets (ie `[` and `]`) to enclose what is being tested.

For example, the simplest tests might be:


# How Important is this Lesson?

**Tests** are a fundamental part of bash scripting, whether it’s on the command line in one-liners, or in much larger scripts or chains of commands.

# What Are Bash Tests?

A test in bash is not a test that your program works. It's a
way of writing an expression that can be true or false.

Tests in bash are constructs that allow you to implement *conditional expressions*. They use square brackets (ie `[` and `]`) to enclose what is being tested.

For example, the simplest tests might be:

In this lesson, you'll learn some of the pitfalls and rules of thumb for practical usage of tests. You'll learn about how bash tests can be written, binary, unary, and logical operators, and if statements.


Core Bash

Scripting Bash

Bash in Practice

Advanced Bash

Tests

How Important is this Lesson?

What Are Bash Tests?