Unix Shell Programming 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.