Notes for the Intro to automation lesson

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Notes to be included in the lesson

-Use set -x: stops the execution of a script if a command or pipeline has an error - which is the opposite of the default shell behaviour, which is to ignore errors in scripts

-Use set -e: prints out each command before executing it - extra useful for debug

Both options are great to include in the beginning of the file

• Include #! /bin/bash in the beginning of the script to define the script interpreter

• Include bash <scriptfile> as a means of running the script file (instead of going directly to ./<scriptfile>)

• Include information on batch scripts

• Check for flag in curl for not re-downloading the file every single time

• Add the way to rename a screen; at creation screen -S <name>, after creation Ctrl+a, :sessionname <name>

• Add commands to detach a screen without the shortcut: screen -d <ID>

• Another way to terminate a screen without needing to reattach: screen -X -S [session # you want to kill] quit