HP-UX Posix Shell Programming

This Hewlett Packard HP-UX Posix Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing shell scripts. Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures.
The course also gives practical experience using a range of HP-UX tools to manipulate text and incorporate 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 Posix Shell Programming course assumes knowledge of the HP-UX Operating System to the level covered in the HP-UX Introduction course. Some programming experience may also prove advantageous.

Course Objectives
To provide the skills needed to develop and customise shell programs and to make effective use of a wide range of standard HP-UX programming and development tools.

Skills Gained
The delegates will practise:

* Writing simple scripts to enhance basic command output
* Using the various shell quoting mechanisms appropriately
* Manipulating shell variables and user-defined variables in scripts
* Implementing conditional execution facilities
* Using the shell's built-in loop constructs where appropriate
* Writing scripts to trap user interrupts
* User defined Functions
* Developing menu-driven shell scripts
* Backing up and restoring files
* Scheduling background jobs using cron and at
* 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
* Using regular expressions
* Translating characters in a file
* Selecting text from files with the grep family of commands
* Editing text files with sed
* Creating programs with awk