HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools

HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Course Overview
This Hewlett Packard HP-UX Posix Shell Programming training 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.

Who will the Course Benefit?
Programmers, developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts using advanced text handling facilities.

The HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools course assumes knowledge of the HP-UX Operating System to the level covered in the HP-UX Introduction Course. Some shell programming experience to the level covered in HP-UX Shell Programming is also necessary.

Course Objectives
To provide the knowledge and skills to make effective use of a wide range of standard HP-UX programming and development tools.

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