Programmers, developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts using advanced text handling, tools and utilities.

• Writing simple scripts to enhance basic command output
• Using the various shell quoting mechanisms appropriately
• Manipulating shell variables and user-defined variables in scripts
• Implementing conditional execution facilities
• Using the shell’s built-in loop constructs where appropriate
• Writing scripts to trap user interrupts
• Developing menu-driven shell scripts
• Backing up and restoring files
• Scheduling background jobs using cron and at
• Using file comparison utilities
• Using the head and tail utilities
• Using the cut and paste utilities
• Sorting files
• Using regular expressions
• Translating characters in a file
• Selecting text from files with the grep family of commands
• Editing text files with sed
• Creating programs with gawk
• Overview of make

LINUX Command Review

Getting Started

Using Quotes

Using Variables

Handling Run Time Input

Condition Testing

Loop Constructs

Multi-Branch Decisions

Interrupt Handling

Additional Features and Facilities

Using the Bash Shell

Redirection, Pipes and Filters

Backup and Restore Utilities

Background Job Scheduling

Commands for Comparing Files

File Manipulation Commands

Sorting Files

Regular Expression Notation

Character Translation with the tr Command

od – Octal Dump

Searching Files for Patterns

The Stream Editor - sed

The Pattern Scanning Utility - gawk

Overview of make