Unix Shell Programming Course
Course Description
The objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to Shell Programming.
At the end of the course delegates will have the fundamental skills required to write simple and complex Shell scripts to automate jobs and processes in the Unix environment
At the end of the course delegates will have the fundamental skills required to write simple and complex Shell scripts to automate jobs and processes in the Unix environment
Course pre-requisites:
Delegates should be competent in the skills covered by the PTR Unix Fundamentals course.
Topics covered on the 2 day Unix Shell Programming course
Introduction
- The UNIX Shell The Bourne, Korn & C Shells UNIX Shell Scripts
Review
- Commands, ls, Redirection, Pipes, Find, Grep, Sort
UNIX Shell Features
- Invoking a Shell, Command line expansion, Command Arguments, Meta-characters, Quotation marks, Redirection, File descriptors, Here documents, Redirection, Pipes, Tee, Defining Exporting and Environment variables, Command grouping, Conditional execution
Basic Shell Scripts
- Positional and Automatic Parameters, Set, Reading input, Writing to standard output, Display attributes, Interactive Shell scripts
Bourne & Korn Shell Programming
- If statement, While statement, Case statement, Test command, For statement, Break statement, Continue statement, Tests on numeric values, String comparisons, Command exit status, Logical operators, Error handling, Arithmetic.
Korn Shell Extensions
- Extensions, Command substitution, Arithmetic expressions, Valid arithmetic operators, Variable attributes, Typeset, Built-in variables, Select command.
Course Classification:
Technical Training Course
This is an instructor led training course taught in a classroom based environment.
Scheduled course dates
| March 2010 | April 2010 | May 2010 | June 2010 | July 2010 |
| 4-5 | 8-9 | 6-7 | 3-4 | - |
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If you would prefer to run this course at your premises as you have several employees to place on the course perhaps, then we are also able to offer onsite Unix Training and bespoke Unix courses
The Unix Shell Programming course qualifies for the PTR Training Passport SAVE IT Scheme, which offers discounts on bookings for multiple courses and/or multiple delegates.