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UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Course Overview

The UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of UNIX tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into UNIX 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 UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools course assumes knowledge of the UNIX Operating System to the level covered in the Introduction to UNIX Course.  Some shell programming experience to the level covered in UNIX Shell Programming is also necessary.

Course Objectives

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

Pre-Requisite Courses

• UNIX Introduction
• UNIX Shell Programming

Follow-On Courses

• UNIX System Administration
• Oracle SQL
• TCP/IP Networking

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

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UNIX 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: REDIRECTION, PIPES AND FILTERS

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

Session 2: BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES

• Archive devices
• The cpio command
• The tar command
• The dd command

Session 3: 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

Session 4: REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTATION

• Regular expressions
• Extended regular expressions

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UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 5: SEARCHING FILES FOR PATTERNS

• The grep family of commands
• The grep command
• The fgrep command
• The egrep command

Session 6: 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

Session 7: 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

Session 8: FILE MANIPULATION COMMANDS

• The head and tail commands
• The cut command
• The paste command
• The pr command
• The split and csplit commands

Session 9: IDENTIFY AND TRANSLATE CHARACTERS

• od - octal dump
• Use cat to display non-printing characters
• The expand and unexpand commands
• The tr command

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UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 10: SORTING FILES

• The sort command
• Specify sort keys with -k
• Sort by column positions
• The uniq command

Session 11: 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

Session 12: 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