Advanced Unix Tools & Shell Scripts Course
Download PDF course outline
Course DescriptionThe objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of some of the more advanced features of the Unix Operating System.
The course builds on the skills developed in the Unix Fundamentals and Shell Programming Course, and shows how the use of advanced Unix utilities and shell programming can save time and ease the task of administration. |
£645 2 day course Scheduled Dates: 05 January 2012 09 February 2012 22 March 2012 03 May 2012 14 June 2012 Location: PTR's Training Centre Wokingham, Berkshire. |
Course pre-requisites:
Topics covered on the 2 day Advanced Unix Tools & Shell Scripts course
Review of Unix commands
- Command options, manual pages, redirection, pipes
Finding files
- Review of the Find command syntax, defining search, find actions, executing commands on matched files.
Finding patterns in files
- Review of grep regular expressions, special characters.
Sorting the contents of files
- Review of sort, ASCII, normal sort, numeric sort, merging sorted files, saving the sorted output, sort keys, multiple keys, field separators, duplicated records, case sensitivity.
The sed command
- Command syntax, options for command line expressions & expressions in files, suppressing default output, operations (delete, append, insert, change & substitute), operation addresses, regular expressions in sed, creating sed files, expression syntax and special characters, global changes, reading and writing files with sed, quitting.
The awk command
- Command syntax, referencing fields, printing fields, awk expressions in files, built in patterns and variables, conditional expressions, logical expressions, regular expressions in awk, formatted printing, control structure, looping commands, default field separators & changing the default, built in functions.
Fields & characters
- Substitution of characters with tr, squeezing multiple characters and deleting, cutting fields from files and standard in, field delimiters in cut, character cutting.
Korn shell extensions
- Metacharacters, command substitution, debugging shell scripts, arithmetic expressions, valid operators, checking and assigning values, substrings, extracting patterns from strings, variable length, arrays, alternative to if, functions.
Course Classification:
Technical Training Course
This is an instructor led training course taught in a classroom based environment.
Scheduled course dates
05 January 2012 to 06 January 2012
09 February 2012 to 10 February 2012
22 March 2012 to 23 March 2012
03 May 2012 to 04 May 2012
14 June 2012 to 15 June 2012
View full schedule of Generic Unix courses
Print / Download PDF Version of full course schedule
25% Late Availability Discount available on the course running on 9th - 10th February 2012 - Click for details
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