UNIX Shell Programming
Course: SHELL
Duration: 3 Days
Level: II
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Course Summary
This course provides experienced users of the UNIX/Linux Korn or Bash Shells with further insights into effective and efficient shell use. The student will be prepared to design, code, test debug, and execute structured Shell procedures making full use of the basic, as well as the more advanced features of these Shells.
Topics Covered In This Course
Introduction and Background Information
Review of Unix Concepts and Commands
- Major Components of UNIX
- The File System
- Listing Directories
- Creating Files
- Displaying Files
- Moving Around Directories
- Redirection & Piping
- Searching for a Pattern
- Finding Files
- User Security
- Other Useful Commands
The Shell Environment
- Variables
- Exporting variables
- Shell Interpretation
- Quotes
- Special Escape Characters
- Recalling & Modifying Previous Commands
Simple Shell Scripts
- Shell Scripts
- Executing Shell Scripts
- Passing Arguments To A Program
- Positional Parameters
- Special Shell Parameters
- The Shift Command
- Read Command
- Expr Command
- Korn Shell Arithmetic
Miscellaneous Utilities
- New group
- Cut and Paste
- Comparing Files
- Head and tail
- Touching files
- Grouping Commands
- Typeset
- Here Documents
- Korn Shell Functions
Controlling Program Flow
- Conditional Processing
- Logical Constructs
- Basic Structured Conditionals
- Nesting Structured Conditionals
- ELIF Statement
- String Operators
- Integer Operators
- File Operators
- Logical Operators
- Case statement
- Looping
- The For Command
- For Statement Without Word List
- The While Loop
- The Until Loop
- While True Loop
- Until False Loop
- The Break Command
- The Continue Command.
Additional Programming Topics
- Shell Script Comments
- The Exit Command
- The Sleep Command
- The Wait Command
- The Set Command
- The Unset Command
- Special Variable Constructs
- The Null Command
- Signals used by Shell Procedures
- Interrupt handling
- Trace
- Timing Command
- Korn Shell Arrays
- Random Variable
- Korn Shell Menu System.
- Programming Hints
- Creating Efficient Shell Procedures
The Stream Editor
- The Stream Editor
- Searching and Replacing Text
- Deleting lines
- Printing Lines
- Edit Files
The Awk Utility
- The awk Utility
- Operators
- BEGIN and END
- Arithmetic operators
- Program Control
- Print Formatting
What You Can Expect
The course is highly interactive and consists of theory
with plenty of hands on practical content. This course
will provide programmers and UNIX Support Staff with the
skills necessary to construct extensive UNIX shell scripts.
By the end of the course, delegates will confidently be
able to put together and maintain complex shell scripts.
Who Should Take This Course
Experienced programmers and support staff, who have some
experience of UNIX based systems, and who will be implementing
further applications and systems. The course is suitable
for delegates, wishing to use the Korn shell, on all versions
of UNIX. (e.g. AIX, Solaris, HPUX, Irix, Linux etc.).
Recommended Prerequisites
Attendees should have a good basic understanding of UNIX,
gained through a UNIX: The Essentials course and at least
three months practical experience. Knowledge of a standard
UNIX editor will be required.
Training Style
Hands on.
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