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AIX Shell Programming

  • Course Code ASPR
  • Duration 2 days

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£980.00

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

  • Company Event

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  • Public Classroom

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  • Virtual Learning

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Course Overview

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AIX Shell Programming Course Overview

This IBM AIX Korn Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of AIX tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into AIX shell scripts.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Schedule

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    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 11-12 April, 2024
    • Location: Virtual

    £980.00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 16-17 May, 2024
    • Location: Virtual

    £980.00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 20-21 May, 2024
    • Location: Virtual

    £980.00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 13-14 June, 2024
    • Location: Virtual

    £980.00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 11-12 July, 2024
    • Location: Virtual

    £980.00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 22-23 July, 2024
    • Location: Virtual

    £980.00

Target Audience

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Who will the Course Benefit?

Programmers,administrators and support personnel who need to understand existing shell scripts,automate procedures and write their own utilities.

The AIX Shell Programming course assumes knowledge of the AIX Operating System to the level covered in the course. Some programming experience may also prove advantageous.

Course Objectives

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Course Objectives

To provide the skills needed to develop and customise shell programs.

Course Content

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AIX Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: AIX COMMAND REVIEW

  • Basic Unix commands
  • General commands
  • File and directory handling commands
  • Filename generation characters and regular expressions (regex)
  • I/O Redirection features
  • Other commands

Session 2: GETTING STARTED

  • What is a shell script?
  • Development guidelines
  • Creating and editing shell scripts
  • Naming and storing shell scripts
  • Executing shell scripts
  • Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 3: USING VARIABLES

  • Environment variables
  • Local variables
  • Assigning values to variables
  • Assessing variable values
  • Using quotes
  • Delimiting variable names
  • Echo control sequences
  • Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 4: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

  • Using the expr command
  • Using the (( )) notation
  • Exercise: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 5: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

  • The read command
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
  • Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 6: CONDITIONAL EXECUTION

  • The if statement
  • The test command
  • Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts

Session 7: ADDITIONAL KORN,BASH & POSIX SYNTAX

  • Other test notations
  • Default and substitute variables
  • Exit status codes
  • Exercise

AIX Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 8: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

  • The while loop
  • The until loop
  • The for loop
  • The while true and until false loops
  • Loop control commands
  • Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
  • Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a 'for' loop
  • Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the 'while' loop

Session 9: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

  • The case statement
  • Menu driven applications
  • Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 10: FUNCTIONS

  • What is a function?
  • Syntax
  • Examples
  • Creating a Function Library
  • Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 11: INTERRUPT HANDLING

  • Interrupt signals
  • Trapping interrupts
  • Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Session 12: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

  • The exec commands
  • The includes notation
  • More about loops
  • Arrays
  • Here Documents
  • Exercise: Create a here script

Course Prerequisites

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Requirements

The AIX Shell Programming course assumes knowledge of the AIX Operating System to the level covered in the AIX Basicscourse. Some programming experience may also prove advantageous.

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