6 Best Bash Courses on edX
We compared 6 Bash courses currently listed on edX, priced from $29.00 to $249.00. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including Dartmouth College. 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
- 6
- Price range
- $29.00 – $249.00
- Providers
- edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 6 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, 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 $29.00 to $249.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
-
1
Building ETL and Data Pipelines with Bash, Airflow and Kafka
Offered by IBM
This course provides you with practical skills to build and manage data pipelines and Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes using shell/python scripts, Airflow and Kafka.
$99.00listed price -
2
Linux and Bash for Data Engineering
Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs
Master Linux and Bash essentials for data engineering. Learn to manipulate data, build pipelines, and automate tasks using shell scripting and powerful Linux tools.
$249.00listed price -
3
Data Engineering Capstone Project
Offered by IBM
This Capstone Project is designed for you to apply and demonstrate your Data Engineering skills and knowledge in SQL, NoSQL, RDBMS, Bash, Python, ETL, Data Warehousing, BI tools and Big Data.
$99.00listed price -
4
Linux Commands & Shell Scripting
Offered by IBM
This mini-course describes shell commands and how to use the advanced features of the Bash shell to automate complicated database tasks. For those not familiar with shell scripting, this course provides an overview of co...
$29.00listed price -
5
Linux Basics: The Command Line Interface
Offered by Dartmouth College
Learn the Linux Command Line interface and become a skilled user of this powerful operating system.
$99.00listed price -
6
edX MOOC / Non-creditLinux Tools for Software Development
Offered by The Linux Foundation
Learn the tools you need to confidently work in Linux development environments and beyond.
$189.00listed price
Best Bash Courses on edX compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Building ETL and Data Pipelines with Bash, Airflow and Kafka | edX | IBM | $99.00 | View → |
| 2 | Linux and Bash for Data Engineering | edX | Pragmatic AI Labs | $249.00 | View → |
| 3 | Data Engineering Capstone Project | edX | IBM | $99.00 | View → |
| 4 | Linux Commands & Shell Scripting | edX | IBM | $29.00 | View → |
| 5 | Linux Basics: The Command Line Interface | edX | Dartmouth College | $99.00 | View → |
| 6 | Linux Tools for Software Development | edX | The Linux Foundation | $189.00 | View → |
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 6 priced courses on this page run from $29.00 to $249.00, with the middle of the range around $99.00 — a spread of $220.00. 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 edX. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Dartmouth College — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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.