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Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools
Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools Course Overview
This Solaris Korn Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of Solaris tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into Solaris shell scripts.
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Who will the Course Benefit?
Programmers, developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts and process text files using advanced text handling facilities.
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Course Objectives
To provide the knowledge and skills to make effective use of a wide range of standard Solaris programming and development tools.
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This is a Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools course by Uplatz.
Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools
Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course
Session 1: BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES
- Backing-up and restoring files
- Basic and advanced use of tar
- Compression utilities gzip, bzip2, zip and compress
- Exercise: Backing up and restoring files using tar
- Exercises: Compressing files
Session 2: BACKGROUND JOB SCHEDULING
- Scheduling jobs with the cron command
- Scheduling jobs with the at command
- Exercises: Running background jobs
Session 3: 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
- Exercises: Identifying file differences
Session 4: SPLITTING FILES
- The split and csplit commands
- Exercises: Splitting files
Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course
Session 5: IDENTIFYING AND TRANSLATING CHARACTERS
- od - octal dump
- Use cat to display non-printing characters
- The expand and unexpand commands to convert between tab and space characters
- The tr command for character translation
- Exercises: Translating characters with tr
Session 6: REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTATION REVIEW
- Standard regular expressions
- Extended regular expressions
Session 7: THE STREAM EDITOR sed
- sed command line syntax
- sed script files
- sed command processing
- sed addresses and simple instructions
- sed pattern space and hold space
- Grouping sed commands
- Hold and get functions
- Advanced flow control
- Exercises: Text processing with sed
Session 8: FUNDAMENTALS OF AWK
- Basic AWK usage
- AWK program-files
- AWK scripts
- AWK variables
- Pattern matching with AWK
- AWK extended patterns
- AWK operators
- AWK arithmetic operations
- AWK output
- Formatting output with printf
- Exercises: Create awk scripts to extract selected data from a file and generate reports
Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course
Session 9: AWK PROGRAM CONTROL STRUCTURES
- The BEGIN and END functions
- The AWK if construct
- The AWK else if construct
- The AWK while construct
- Other program control statements
- The AWK break, continue and exit statements
- User defined functions
- Exercises: Create AWK scripts and program-files utilising program control structures
Session 10: AWK FUNCTIONS
- AWK string functions
- AWK length, tolower, toupper, index, sub, gsub, match, substr, split, sprintf, system and getline functions
- Exercises: Generate AWK scripts and program-files to extract and format data using AWK functions
Session 11: AWK ARRAYS
- AWK associative arrays
- Multi-dimensional arrays
- Exercises: Create AWK associative arrays to process text files and generate reports
Session 12: MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS
- bc (calculator)
- fuser (testing for files in use)
- getops (checking options passed to shell scripts)
- printf (formatting screen output)
- logger (script logging)
- xargs (generating arguments for a command)
- eval (re-evaluating variables)
- Exercises: Using tools within a shell script
