Unix Shell and awk Programming

Goals

This course teaches the Unix computer professional the techniques needed to develop advanced shell and reporting type procedures under Unix. Techniques in the major shells will be shown. Note that all Unix systems support all of the techniques in this course.

• Use Unix, awk, sed, Bourne and Korn shell commands
• Use shell commands to process files of data
• Create shell commands scripts
• Generate reports using the (n)awk facility
• Develop executable files
• Learn to use the powerful Regular Expressions

Audience

This class is intended for computer professionals, including users, systems administrators, and applications or systems programmers.

Duration

Prerequisites

Completion of the "Unix Operating System" course or equivalent system time and experience with the interactive shells.

Contents

Shell Overview
Data types
Shell programming constructs (Selection, Iteration)
Functions
Unix productivity tools
Regular expressions
The sed utility and its applications
Information processing using awk

Format

Schedule