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MySQL QA Episode 1: Bash/GNU Tools & Linux Upskill & Scripting Fun

March 17, 2015
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Roel Van de Paar
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MySQL QA Episode #1: Bash/GNU Tools & Linux Upskill & Scripting Fun

This episode consists of 13 parts, and an introduction. See videos below

In HD quality (set your player to 720p!)

Introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rdH0QO81s4

Part 1: echo, ls, cp, rm, vi, cat, df, du, tee, cd, clear, uname, date, time, cat, mkdir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOk_Pb8xoSk

Part 2: find, wc, sort, shuf, tr, mkdir, man, more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umRteMcIzEo

Part 3: Redirection, tee, stdout, stderr, /dev/null, cat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E0V7K30Tr0

Part 4: Vars, ‘ vs “, $0, $$, $!, screen, chmod, chown, export, set, whoami, sleep, kill, sh, grep, sudo, su, pwd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu0Anfaz04g

Part 5: grep, regex (regular expressions), tr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E_kegeASnA

Part 6: sed, regex (regular expressions)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJdxASRoKkQ

Part 7: awk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWyaYO2Lzkw

Part 8: xargs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkw8Q2cQF-c

Part 9: subshells, shells, sh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D0Gg8l3yX0

Part 10: if, for, while, seq, head, grep & grep -q, sleep, tee, read & more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t10ZFoE3BU

Part 11: Arrays, lynx, grep, egrep, awk, redirection, variable, printf, while, wget, read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjcMW2tSTdU

Part 12: Production scripting examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzLlsccML10

Part 13: Gnuwin32, Gnuwin32 escaping & path name/binary selection gotcha’s, untar, unzip, gzip for Windows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUH_7O4SG4o

If you enjoyed these video’s leave us a comment below!

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Rares Dumitrescu
11 years ago

thanks for this article. just finished watching all the tutorials today and it was really great. looking forward for the sequels.

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