Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools
- Course Code SASP
- Duration 3 days
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Course Overview
TopThis 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.
Company Events
These events can be delivered exclusively for your company at our locations or yours, specifically for your delegates and your needs. The Company Events can be tailored or standard course deliveries.
Course Schedule
TopTarget Audience
TopProgrammers,developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts and process text files using advanced text handling facilities.
Course Objectives
TopTo provide the knowledge and skills to make effective use of a wide range of standard Solaris programming and development tools.
Course Content
TopSession 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
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
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
Course Prerequisites
TopThe Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools course assumes knowledge of the Solaris Operating System to the level covered in the Solaris Introduction course. Knowledge of Solaris Shell Programming to the level covered on the Solaris Shell Programming course is also a requirement. Alternatively,relevant experience of UNIX or Linux servers is required.
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