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Unix Courses > Advanced Unix Tools & Shell Scripts Training Course


Course Fee = £725   (excl.VAT)


Advanced Unix Tools & Shell Scripts Course Outline


Course Description
The 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.

Course pre-requisites:
Delegates should be familiar with the Unix Operating System to the level achieved by the Unix Fundamentals and Shell Programming courses.


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.
This is an instructor led training course taught in a classroom based environment.

Course Classification:  Technical Training Course


Course Fee = £725
   (excl.VAT)


Scheduled course dates
July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009
9-1013-1410-1115-1612-13



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


If you want to attend the course but can't make the dates published, then please get in touch as we may well be able to add additional dates to those published or to re-arrange the course. Additionally, you could take advantage of one-to-one training with our SoloIT Training packages that also enables you to attend this course on dates that suit.


The Advanced Unix Tools & Shell Scripts course qualifies for the PTR SAVE IT Scheme, which offers discounts on bookings for multiple courses and/or multiple delegates.

View SAVE IT Scheme Details


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