Master automation with Bash, PowerShell, and Python in real-world scenarios. Learn to write scripts that solve everyday IT tasks in fewer lines of code.
Key Features
- A comparative guide to Bash, PowerShell, and Python for solving diverse IT automation tasks
- Practical scripting scenarios that reflect real-world problems faced by IT professionals
- Structured walkthroughs that move from language basics to advanced multi-tool integrations
Book Description
This comprehensive scripting guide empowers system administrators, developers, and power users to automate repetitive IT tasks across platforms using three major scripting languages: Bash, PowerShell, and Python. The book opens with foundational scripting concepts and showcases what you can accomplish with just ten lines of code. It continues with in-depth chapters on each language, emphasizing syntax, control structures, error handling, and modularity. Readers will explore practical techniques for managing files, parsing text, utilizing regular expressions, and working with JSON, XML, and INI formats. The book dives into job automation with cron and Task Scheduler, secure communication via SSH, and scripting in professional environments with tools like Visual Studio Code and Git. The final section applies scripting to real-world cases, including system backups, image processing, web scraping, API consumption, database interactions, cloud integration, and virtual machine automation. With this book, readers build a strong scripting toolkit to efficiently manage modern IT workflows.
What you will learn
- Automate tasks using concise Bash, PowerShell, and Python
- Create scripts for backups, logging, and web scraping
- Manage files, loops, and errors across all three languages
- Parse text and logs using filters, pipes, and regex tools
- Integrate scripting with Git, APIs, SSH, and cloud services
- Schedule jobs with cron and Windows Task Scheduler
Who this book is for
Ideal for system administrators, DevOps professionals, and developers seeking practical automation skills. Readers should have basic familiarity with command-line interfaces and general programming concepts to get the most out of this book.
