Red Hat Linux Shell Programming and Utilities

Prerequisites:

Course Description:

On completion of the course the delegate will have a good practical working knowledge of how to manipulate the Shell as an environment interface and how to fully utilise the Linux shell programming language. In addition, the delegate will be able to make effective use of a wide range of standard Linux programming tools.

Delegates:

System Administrators, Programmers and Operators who need to improve their productivity in the Linux shell environment. It is intended for those who need to construct, modify and maintain Linux shell scripts using the Linux advanced text handling tools and utilities.

This course includes the following modules:

Topics Covered:

• Review of Bash Shell Features
• Review of Shell Scripting Fundamentals
• Review of Program Control Constructs
• Conditional Operators and Arithmetic Operations
• Handling Command Line Arguments, Variables and Arrays
• User Interaction and the read Command
• User-defined Functions
• Here Documents
• Interrupt Handling
• Co-processes
• Head and Tail Utilities
• Cut and Paste Utilities
• File Comparison Utilities
• Splitting Large Files
• Investigating Files using cat and od
• Using the Translation Utility tr
• Regular Expression Notation
• Locating text with grep, fgrep and egrep
• Editing Text Files with sed
• Processing Text Files with gawk