This 2 day instructor led class, is designed for system administrators. Students will learn advanced power tools as well as how to customize the POSIX Korn shell.
Detailed Course Outline
• Writing and Running Shell Scripts
• Command Substitution
• Shell Variables and Variable Substitution
• Shell Environment Variables
• Comments
• Getting User Input – Read
• The for Loop and if Statement
• Exit Status or Return Code
• The test Command
• The case Statement
• Simple Conditionals
• The set Command
• Arithmetic with shell variables
Remote Connections
• Connect remotely using telnet and ssh
• Transfer files with ftp and sftp
Advanced File Management
• Creating links
• Processing files with “awk”, “tr”, and “sed”
• Use awk/nawk commands from the command line
• Write awk programs to generate data reports from text files
• Write awk programs to generate numeric and text reports from text files
Regular Expressions and the grep Command
• Use and describe regular expressions
• Describe the grep command
• Use the grep command to find patterns in a file
• Use the regular expression characters with the grep command
• Metacharacters
• The grep command
Command line database processing
• Using awk to display file contents and process data
• Formatting files with the tr command
• Using UNIX filters to filter, sort and restructure data
• Use awk to scan text files or standard input to display specific data, change data format, and add text to existing data
Stream Editing with ‘sed’
• Use sed to perform noninteractive editing tasks
• Substituting text
• Deleting and printing lines
• Reading and writing files
• Multiple ‘sed’ editor functions
• Use regular expression characters with the sed command
Writing and Debugging Scripts
• Creating a shell script
• Put comments in a script
• Change permissions on a script
• Execute a script
• Debug a script
String Manipulation
• String Comparison
• String Relations
• Concatenation
• Substring Manipulations
• Wildcards and Pattern Matching
Conditionals
• Use the exit status of a command as conditional control
• Use the “if” statement to test a condition
• Pass values using command-line arguments (positional parameters) into a script
• Create USAGE messages
• Place parameters on the command line
• Use conditional if, then, elif, else, and fi constructs
• Use exit, let, and test statements ([[ ]], ” “)
• Apply the &&, ||, and ! Boolean logic operators
• Use the case statement
Interactive Scripts
• Use the print and echo commands to display text
• Use the read command to interactively assign data to a shell variable
• Read user input into one or more variables, using one read statement
• Use special characters, with print and echo, to make the displayed text more user friendly
• Create a “here” document
• Use file descriptors to read from and write to multiple files
Loops
• Write scripts that use for, while, and until loops
• Write a script using the select statement
• Describe when to use loops within a script
• Generate argument lists using command, variable, and file-name substitution
Advanced Variables, Parameters, and Argument Lists
• Declare strings, integers, and array variables
• Manipulate string variables
• Change the values of the positional parameters using the set statement within a script
• Pass values using command-line arguments (positional parameters) into a script
• Declare korn shell string and array variables
• Setting and retrieving arrays
• Set default values for parameters
• Use the Korn shell built-in let, print, set, and typeset statements
• Reading user input
• Positional parameters
• Creating positional parameters
• Conditional substitution
• Working with arithmetic operators and data
Functions
Create user-defined functions in a shell script
• Create, invoke, and display functions from the command line
• Pass arguments into a function
• Call functions from special (function) files that are saved in one or more function directories
• Describe where functions are available for use
Controlling Script Behavior
• Manage the use of temporary files
• Write scripts using the setuid bit
• Use the crontab command
Scheduling Execution
• sleep
• date
• cron and crontab
Traps
• Describe how the trap statement works
• Include trap statements in a script
• Use the trap statement to catch signals and handle errors
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