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HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Course Overview

This Hewlett Packard HP-UX Posix Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of HP-UX tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into HP-UX shell scripts.

Skills Gained

The delegate will practice:

• Using the shell command line editor
• Backing up and restoring files
• Scheduling background jobs using cron and at
• Using regular expressions
• Editing text files with sed
• Using file comparison utilities
• Using the head and tail utilities
• Using the cut and paste utilities
• Using split and csplit
• Identifying and translating characters
• Sorting files
• Translating characters in a file
• Selecting text from files with the grep family of commands
• Creating programs with awk

Who will the Course Benefit?

Programmers, developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts using advanced text handling facilities.

The HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools course assumes knowledge of the HP-UX Operating System to the level covered in the HP-UX Introduction Course. Some shell programming experience to the level covered in HP-UX Shell Programming is also necessary.

Course Objectives

To provide the knowledge and skills to make effective use of a wide range of standard HP-UX programming and development tools.

Pre-Requisite Courses

• HP-UX Introduction
• HP-UX Shell Programming

Follow-On Courses

• HP-UX System Administration
• Oracle SQL

NOTE: Course technical content is subject to change without notice.

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HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: REVIEW OF SHELL FUNDAMENTALS

• Review of UNIX Commands

Session 2: USING UNIX SHELLS

• Command line history and editing
• The Korn and POSIX shells
• The Bash shell
• Command aliasing
• The shell startup file
• Shell environment variables

Session 3: REDIRECTION, PIPES AND FILTERS

• Standard I/O and redirection
• Pipes
• Command separation
• Conditional execution
• Grouping Commands
• UNIX filters
• The tee command

Session 4: BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES

• Archive devices
• The cpio command
• The tar command
• The dd command
• Exercise:   Backing up and restoring files using tar
• Exercise:   Backing up and restoring files using cpio

Session 5: BACKGROUND JOB SCHEDULING

• Starting background jobs
• Background tasks and the nohup command
• Process priorities and the nice command
• Job control
• Scheduling jobs with the at command
• Scheduling jobs with the cron command
• Exercise:   Running background jobs

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HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 6: REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTATION

• Regular expressions
• Extended regular expressions

Session 7: SEARCHING FILES FOR PATTERNS

• The grep family of commands
• The grep command
• The fgrep command
• The egrep command
• Exercises:   Search for patterns with grep and egrep

Session 8: THE STREAM EDITOR - sed

• Introduction and command line syntax
• The sed program structure
• sed program processing
• Use sed commands
• sed addresses
• sed instructions
• Hold and get functions
• Advanced flow control
• Exercises:   Simple text processing with sed
• Exercises:   Create sed scripts to edit files

Session 9: COMMANDS FOR COMPARING FILES

• Compare two files with the cmp command
• Compare two files with the comm command
• Compare two files with the diff and sdiff commands
• Compare large files with the bdiff command
• Exercise:   Identifying file differences

Session 10: FILE MANIPULATION COMMANDS

• The head and tail commands
• The cut command
• The paste command
• The pr command
• The split and csplit commands
• Exercises:   Manipulate text with cut and paste
• Exercises:   Manipulate text with head and tail

Session 11: IDENTIFY AND TRANSLATE CHARACTERS

• od - octal dump
• Use cat to display non-printing characters
• The expand and unexpand commands
• The tr command
• Exercises:   Translating text files with tr
• Exercises:   Display non-printing characters

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HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 12: SORTING FILES

• The sort command
• Specify sort keys with -k
• Sort by column positions
• The uniq command
• Exercises:   Sorting text files

Session 13: INTRODUCTION TO THE PATTERN SCANNING UTILITY - awk

• Introduction and command line syntax
• The awk program structure
• Use regular expressions
• Operators
• Simple patterns
• Extended patterns
• Comments
• Special patterns (BEGIN and END)
• Program variables
  • Built-in variables
  • User defined variables
• Mathematical operators
• Enhanced printing
• Handling user variables
• Exercises:   Create simple awk scripts
• Exercises:   Create a simple awk script using variables

Session 14: awk PROGRAM CONTROL STRUCTURES

• Program control structures
• The if construct
• The while and do ... while constructs
• The basic for construct
• Associative array handling
• Functions
  • Built in functions
  • The system function
  • The getline function
  • User defined functions
• Exercises:   Create an awk script using an associative array
• Exercises:   Create an awk script using a for loop and if statement
• Exercises:   Create an awk script using functions