Turning Commands Into a Bash Script

In this hands-on lab, we’re going to write a shell script for connecting to Linux Academy Linux servers from another Linux (or Mac) host, without having to first accept the RSA fingerprint.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Determine What Options Should Be Used with the ssh Command

View the man page for the ssh command, and determine the option to use to disable host key checking.

Build a Script from the Required Commands

Create a bin folder in cloud_user‘s home directory.
```
mkdir bin
```
Use Vim to create the file lab.sh in the new bin folder.
```
vim bin/lab.sh
```

Create the following script.

#!/bin/bash  

login_user=cloud_user
if [ -n $1 ]
then
  ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no $login_user@$1
fi

Then, save the file by running.
```
:wq
```

Execute and Verify the Script

Save the file, and make it executable.
```
chmod u+x bin/lab.sh
```
Run the script, passing 10.0.1.10 as the first parameter to be assigned to $1.
```
./bin/lab.sh 10.0.1.10
```
Press Ctrl + C to exit the password prompt.

Add the New bin Directory to the PATH Variable

Append to the .bashrc file in cloud_user‘s home directory to add the new bin folder to the PATH environment variable.
```
echo 'PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"' >> .bashrc
```
Source .bashrc to pick up the change.
```
. .bashrc
```
Verify that you can run lab.sh without specifying the path to the script.
```
lab.sh 10.0.1.10
```

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Turning Commands Into a Bash Script

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