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Shell Programming

"Ireland's Centre for Unix Excellence"

This 1-day course provides a general understanding of Unix Shell programming. On completion of the course delegates will be able to write shell procedures to perform routine administration tasks.

Course Summary:
  • Different UNIX Shells and their uses
  • Wild Cards
  • Interactive processing, background processing
  • I/O Direction, pipes & filters
  • Command substitution
  • Quoting mechanisms
  • Positional parameters
  • User definable variables
  • Special system variables, exporting variables
  • Changing directories
  • User profiles
  • Execution flags
  • Process versus program
  • Parent/child process relationships
  • Creating shell scripts
  • Programming constructs used in shell scripts
  • e.g. Case statement, if/then/else construct, while, etc.
Target Audience:
This course is aimed at software developers, systems and database administrators.

Prerequisites:
  1. Unix Fundamentals Course (any Unix version), or equivalent knowledge
Follow-Up Courses:
Option of other related or follow-on courses:
  1. Shell Programming Advanced
  2. Posix Shell Programming
  3. Solaris™ Practical Administration
  4. SolarisTM Advanced System Administration
  5. Solaris™ Advanced System and Network Administration FasTrack
  6. Linux Administration Essentials
  7. HP-UX Practical Administration
 


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