AdminDev Labs

### Practical Scripts Personal Task Manager - Two scripts - Add a task - Find and display tasks -- Weekly, annual, and single entry -- Test for bad/incompatible formatting -- Save the data to a hidden file -- Second script changes current date into dayname, day and month, or day, month, and year -- String comparison -- Print tasks Largest Disk Occupancy - Loop through /etc/passwd (use cut to grab username and awk to iterate only UID over 99) - Use find and -xdev to specific certian directories (saves time) - Closing awk statement that only prints to accounts that have exceeded specified disk space - Modify/evolve script to e-mail users that have excessive disk space Provisioning Tool - Uses virt-install - Default values for RAM, CPU, and disk size - CLI arguments to include values and override defaults if necessary - Test for empty name and break out of script Additional Resources - The Linux Command Line - Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible - Linux Academy - Wicked Cool Shell Scripts - learnshell.o