# Welcome the user ("student" on the NETLAB+ Linux computer)
echo "Hello, your username is `whoami`. Let's count 10 lines."

# Set the count variable to 1 at first
count=1
# Start a loop that runs while count is less than 11
while [ $count -lt 11 ]
do
    # Print the line number depending on what count currently equals
    echo "This is line number $count!"
    # Tell the user that we're almost done after line number 9
    if [ $count -eq 9 ]
    then
        echo "Almost done..."
    fi
    # Add 1 to count and go back to the start of the loop
    count=`expr $count + 1`
done

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About Bash

Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is a shell program written by Brian Fox and is an upgraded version of Bourne Shell program 'sh'.

Features

  • Open source GNU project
  • Read and execute the commands from a Shell Script
  • Can be invoked by either single-character command line options (-a, -b, -c, -i, -l, -r, etc. ) or by multi-character command line options also like --help, --debugger,--login, etc.
  • Consists of Key bindings
  • Available in restricted mode for the environment security
  • Contains one-dimensional arrays to manipulate the lists of data.

Syntax help

Variables

name="Foo"
echo $name
echo "$name"
echo "${name}"

Conditional Statements

If

if [ conditional-expression ]  
then  
statements  
fi

If-else

if [ conditional-expression ]  
then  
   statements  
else  
  statements
fi

Else-If

if [ conditional-expression ]  
then  
   statements  
elif [ conditional-expression ]  
then  
 statements  
else  
  statements
fi