HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools
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Prerequisites:
Delegate should have attended HP-UX Introduction (HI) and HP-UX Shell Programming (HSPR), or have similar knowledge.Course Description:
This 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.
The course will benefit programmers, developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts using advanced text handling facilities.
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
- Searching files for patterns with the grep family of commands
- Editing text fi…
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Prerequisites:
Delegate should have attended HP-UX Introduction (HI) and HP-UX Shell Programming (HSPR), or have similar knowledge.Course Description:
This 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.
The course will benefit programmers, developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts using advanced text handling facilities.
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
- Searching files for patterns with the grep family of commands
- 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
This course includes the following modules:
Review of Shell Fundamentals
- Review of UNIX Commands
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
Redirection, Pipes and Filters
- Standard I/O and redirection
- Pipes
- Command separation
- Conditional execution
- Grouping Commands
- UNIX filters
- The tee command
Backup and Restore Utilities
- Archive devices
- The cpio command
- The tar command
- The dd command
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
Regular Expression Notation
- Regular expressions
- Extended regular expressions
Searching Files for Patterns
- The grep family of commands
- The grep command
- The fgrep command
- The egrep command
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
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
File Manipulation Commands
- The head and tail commands
- The cut command
- The paste command
- The pr command
- The split and csplit commands
Identify and Translate Characters
- od - octal dump
- Use cat to display non-printing characters
- The expand and unexpand commands
- The tr command
Sorting Files
- The sort command
- Specify sort keys with -k
- Sort by column positions
- The uniq command
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
awk Program Control Structures
- Program control structures
- The if construct
- The while and do ... while constructs
- The basic for construct
- Associative array handling
- Functions
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