Korn Shell Programming with awk/sed

Description

This course is a continuation of the AIX and Korn Shell Fundamentals class.  It begins by presenting additional utilities that are useful in shell scripts.  Students are then taught basic programming concepts within the context of the Korn shell scripting language.  More advanced features of the Korn shell and its scripting capability are presented next.

The course then presents the basics of working with the Stream Editor.  Students are given additional material on regular expressions and taught how to use sed to edit files.  Techniques for integrating sed commands into Korn shell scripts are also presented.

Next, the course presents the awk programming language.  Students learn to write awk scripts to extract data from files and generate reports.  In addition, students are shown how they can integrate awk commands and programs into Korn shell scripts.

Goals/Objectives

          Use the Korn shell to automate command sequences.

          Use the Stream editor to edit files.

          Use the awk programming language to extract data from files and generate reports.

          Write AIX utilities to assist with and automate administrative tasks.

Outline/Table of Contents

·     Getting Started

·     Setting Variable Characteristics·

·     Math Operations

·     Flow Control

·     Functions

·     Working with Strings

·     Signals

·     The Stream Editor

·     The awk Programming Language