Learn Bash with the 'Hard Way' method. It's the best way to develop your skills, and takes you from confusion to understanding in easy-to-follow steps.

Learn Bash the Hard Way

Preface

This bash course has been written to help bash users to get to a deeper understanding and proficiency in bash. It doesn’t aim to make you an expert immediately, but you will be more confident about using bash for more tasks than just one-off commands.

This part takes you through some fundamental concepts necessary to take your bash knowledge further.

Part I - Core Bash

In this section I cover concepts and techniques that form the basis of bash scripting. These are the fundamental building blocks required to write and comprehend useful bash scripts, and forms the basis of the more advanced sections that follow.

Part II - Scripting Bash

In this section I cover concepts and techniques that form the basis of daily usage of bash. They can be considered ‘tips’ for bash usage and somewhat optional, but come up often enough for me to think it important to cover in a practical guide.

Part III - Bash Features

In this section you will learn about some more advanced bash topics.

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