UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools

The UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of UNIX tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into UNIX shell scripts.
Who will the Course Benefit?
Programmers, developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts using advanced text handling facilities.

The UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools course assumes knowledge of the UNIX Operating System to the level covered in the Introduction to UNIX Course.

Some shell programming experience to the level covered in UNIX Shell Programming is also necessary

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

The UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of UNIX tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into UNIX shell scripts.
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