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8 Best Bash Courses for Beginners

We compared 8 Bash courses currently listed on Udemy and Coursera, priced from $19.99 to $199.99. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.

Courses compared
8
Price range
$19.99 – $199.99
Providers
Udemy, Coursera
Last updated
18 Sep 2026
How these 8 courses were chosen

Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Udemy, Coursera, matched to "bash" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.

The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.

There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $199.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.

  1. 1
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    Bash Shell Scripting Tutorial for Beginners

    Linux has a variety of different shells Like Bourne shell (sh), C shell (csh), Korn shell (ksh), TC shell (tcsh), Bourne Again shell (bash). Certainly the most popular shell is “bash”. Bash is an sh-compatible shell that...

    $99.99
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    Unix and Bash for Beginners

    Offered by Codio

    This specialization is intended for people without technical experience who seek to develop bash scripting skills and learn about Unix tools that will allow them to perform basic system administrator tasks on Linux and o...

    $49.00
    listed price
  3. 3
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    Bash Shell and Scripting Fundamentals

    The course would not only serve as a stepping board to learn more lucrative languages such as Python. But it would help you to understand the small things regularly ignored by most writers and content creators. You shoul...

    $49.99
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Hands-on Introduction to Linux Commands and Shell Scripting

    Offered by IBM

    This course provides a practical understanding of common Linux / UNIX shell commands. In this beginner friendly course, you will learn about the Linux basics, Shell commands, and Bash shell scripting. You will begin this...

    $49.00
    listed price
  5. 5
    Coursera Certificate Grade B

    Applied Software Engineering Fundamentals

    Offered by IBM

    If you want to enter the exciting world of software development, this Software Engineering Foundations Specialization is for you. No prior degrees or knowledge of programming or application development are necessary. Sof...

    $49.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    Udemy Bootcamp Grade C

    Complete Linux Bootcamp for Beginners

    This course is teaches the fundamentals of linux shell using the terminal, some insight on bash shell and we will investigate various aspects of the shell, for example scripting, using utilities like grep and sed, C and...

    $199.99
    listed price
  7. 7
    Udemy Certificate Grade C Lowest price here

    Linux Fundamentals for IT Professionals using Ubuntu

    Master Linux & Ubuntu 20.04: Complete Hands-On Training for IT Professionals, DevOps Engineers & System AdministratorsTransform Your IT Career with Production-Ready Linux SkillsBecome a confident Linux profession...

    $19.99
    listed price
  8. 8
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    Linux & DevOps Bundle for Beginners: Start Your Tech Career

    This course is designed to help you become a skilled Linux System Administrator by teaching you everything you need to know through real-world tasks and hands-on projects. We start with Linux Administration, where you le...

    $199.99
    listed price

Best Bash Courses for Beginners compared

Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.

What the prices here tell you

The 8 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $49.99 — a spread of $180.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.

Who is behind these courses

These courses come from Udemy and Coursera. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion.

Before you enrol

Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 18 September 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.

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