Bash Scripting Courses for Hackers

Week 1-2: Introduction to Bash Scripting
Introduction to Bash scripting: Purpose, benefits, and use cases in penetration testing.
Setting up a Bash scripting environment: Terminal, text editors, and basic commands.
Understanding the Bash shell: Command-line syntax, variables, and environment variables.
Basic scripting concepts: Comments, shebang, execution permissions, and exit status.

Week 3-4: Working with Files and Directories
File manipulation: Creating, reading, writing, and deleting files.
Directory operations: Navigating, creating, and deleting directories.
File permissions: Changing permissions and ownership, using chmod and chown.
Wildcards and globbing: Using * and ? for pattern matching.

Week 5-6: Control Structures and Logic
Conditional statements: if, else, elif, and case statements.
Comparison operators: -eq, -ne, -lt, -gt, -le, -ge for numeric and string comparisons.
Logical operators: &&, ||, and ! for combining conditions.
Loops: for, while, and until loops for iterating through data.

Week 7-8: Functions and Script Organization
Functions in Bash: Defining, calling, and passing arguments to functions.
Return values and exit codes: Capturing return values and setting exit codes.
Script organization: Using functions to modularize scripts for maintainability.
Best practices: Indentation, code comments, and script documentation.

Week 9-10: Text Processing and Data Manipulation
Command substitution: Capturing command output using $( ) and backticks.
Text processing tools: grep, sed, awk for searching, substituting, and manipulating text data.
Working with CSV and JSON data: Parsing and extracting information.
Regular expressions: Basic regex patterns and usage in Bash.

Week 11-12: Networking and Security Automation
Network interaction: Using curl and wget for downloading files from the internet.
Port scanning: Writing scripts to automate nmap or other port scanning tools.
Automating security tasks: Scripting repetitive security checks, log analysis, etc.
Handling sensitive data: Best practices for securely handling passwords and secrets.

Week 13-14: Advanced Topics
Signal handling: Trapping signals like Ctrl+C, handling interrupts.
Advanced loops: Nested loops, loop control using break and continue.
Debugging and error handling: Using set -x, set -e, and trap for debugging.
Script optimization: Identifying and improving performance bottlenecks.

Week 17-18: Guest Lectures and External Tools Integration
Inviting industry experts: Guest lectures on real-world applications and challenges.
Integrating external tools: Calling other command-line tools from Bash scripts.
API interactions: Writing scripts to interact with APIs for data retrieval and manipulation.
Collaborative scripting: Using version control (e.g., Git) for team-based scripting projects.

Week 19-20: Ethical Considerations and Final Projects
Ethical considerations: Discussing responsible scripting, avoiding harm, and legal implications.
Final projects: Presenting and demonstrating the penetration testing scripts developed by students.
Peer feedback and evaluation: Reviewing and providing feedback on classmates' projects.
Course conclusion: Recap, Q&A session, and further resources for self-study.