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Advanced UNIX Shell Programming

( WT-1311-180 )

Course Description

Course Offered in Partnership With DigitalThink

This course is the second in a two-part series designed for UNIX users who are ready to begin exploring the power and support available in the shell environment. This series covers the essential aspects of shell programming and provides an overview of the similarities and differences among the most popular shells. Students will learn advanced features including embedded command execution, command line argument processing, debugging techniques, use of sed to edit files, and use of awk to format command output.

This course requires a computer running Windows, Macintosh, or UNIX, and telnet software.

eMentoring Services are included with this course.

Course length: 8 hours

Course details
id: WT-1311-180
subscription duration: 180 days
list price: $ 325.00

Languages Offered

This course is currently available in English only.

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

Demonstrate completion of UNIX Fundamentals Bundle and Creating Basic UNIX Shell Scripts, or equivalent knowledge and experience

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

Create a shell script that can add and remove lines from a text file

Create a shell script that searches text files for a given pattern

Create a shell script that prints a subset of columns from a text file

Create a shell script that uses command line arguments and options

Identify and debug common problems found in shell scripts

Related Courses

Before: Creating Basic UNIX Shell Scripts

Course Content

Module 1: Course introduction Back To Top

Course introduction

Prerequisites

What you need

Course resources

Your learning community

Meet your instructor

The course project

Module 2: Processes and shells

Processes and shells

The login shell

What is a process?

Starting other shells

Parent and child processes

Three ways to run a shell script

Specifying the shell in a script

The PATH

Module wrap up

Module 3: Embedded command execution

Embedded command execution

Defining embedded execution

Embedded command syntax

When to use embedded execution

Using embedded execution in a for loop

Module wrap up

Module 4: Useful UNIX commands

Useful UNIX commands

The find command

The wc command

The sort command

Using variables with the sort command

The sleep and clear commands

The grep command

The -c option to grep

The tee command

Module wrap up

Module 5: Debugging shell scripts

Debugging shell scripts

Types of errors

Tracing shell scripts

Identifying common errors

Data handling errors

Identifying common errors

Printing progress statements

Trapping system signals

Module wrap-up

Module 6: Writing shell functions

Writing shell functions

The purpose of functions

Defining a function

Calling a function

A script that uses functions

Sharing data with functions

Creating a reusable function

Obtaining functions from others

Module wrap-up

Module 7: Using sed

Using sed

Introducing sed

Basic sed syntax

Deleting selected strings

Replacing text

Printing selected strings

Using the and variable

Using multiple sed commands

Using sed with other commands

Module wrap-up

Module 8: Using awk

Using awk

Introducing awk

Looking at a file from an awk perspective.

Basic awk syntax

The BEGIN and END sections

Selecting part of a file based on a regular expression

Using comparisons in awk

Combining matches

Creating multi-line awk commands

Variables

Arithmetic

Using awk with other commands

Module wrap up

Module 9: Shell built-in variables and commands

Shell built-in variables and commands

Command-line arguments

Shell built-in variables

Script options

The shift command

The set command

Using set and shift together

Module wrap up

Module 10: Course conclusion

Course conclusion

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