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Learn Python to Write and Tune Linux Shell Scripts

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Ravi Saive
Aug 1, 2016

In this guide we will discuss control flow (to choose different courses of action depending on information entered by a user, the result of a calculation, or the current value of a variable) and loops (to automate repetitive tasks) and then apply what we have learned so far to write a simple shell script that will display the operating system type, the hostname, the kernel release, version, and the machine hardware name.
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Ravi Saive

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