Udemy class on Bash shell scripting, taught by Jason Cannon of LinuxTrainingAcademy.com. Interesting class so far; class is taught by using a virtual box running Centos7. Just now getting into it.

I'll be bouncing around between several Linux boxes, so I thought I'd better create a repo for the class.

One thing to note is that while there are instructions for installing Vagrant and Virtual box for Windows and Mac, and also Centos/RedHat Linux, other distros are omitted.

So far I'm not running the course on a Red Hat or Centos7 box, so I've had to find my instructions for installing Virtualbox and Vagrant for my particular Linux distros that I use. I do not follow the instructions for installing according to the class notes. If you do, you'll risk damaging your system or create some sort of mess. Just use your distro's installation documentation for installing these two dependencies. The first couple of lessons help test out your installation. You also might have to make sure that virtual machines are enabled in the BIOS, which they probably are on a newer 64-bit box.

The Arch-based distros seem to like a reboot after installing their packages, and inserting the vboxdrv module right away did not work for me. However, once I did a lsmod after a reboot, I saw that all my virtualbox modules had been loaded. This was Antergos and Manjaro. (I had to edit a modules.conf file for the virtualbox service on Antergos.)

Once you get Vagrant and Virtualbox installed, you'll need to add a particular box to Vagrant:

vagrant box add jasonc/centos7

So far so good. The guy sounds like an experienced Linux guy. He's already identified several things that are "the old way" of doing things, which I didn't know. I'll be curious to find out the history of some of the conventions, such as [[ instead of [ as a shell built-in.