Introduction to UNIX/Korn Shell Programming
Duration
Tow - Five Days/Lecture & Lab
Pre-requisites
The student should have completed the ProTech Introduction to UNIX course or possess equivalent knowledge: Understanding of the UNIX file system, permissions, basic file management commands, use of the vi editor, and familiar with using a UNIX shell interactively.
Summary
This course is designed to help technical staff gain a mastery of writing, debugging, and maintaining UNIX shell scripts, using the Bourne and/or Korn shell. The two day delivery is designed to immediately follow the three day ProTech "Introduction to UNIX" class, and covers topics 1 (Intro to Shell Programming) and either 4 (Bourne shell) or 5 (Korn Shell). The five day delivery is taught stand-alone. Topics 2 (Review of UNIX Essentials) and 3 (Review of the vi editor) are covered on-demand if the attendees UNIX skills are rusty. The five day delivery contains more complex hands-on labs to deepen the students understanding of presented concepts and facilities, and to gain additional experience in design, testing, and debugging.
Audience
This course is intended for technical staff that develops and maintains UNIX Korn and/or Bourne shell programs either for personal productivity, as an aid to application development, or for advanced UNIX system monitoring and maintenance.
Topics
- Introduction to Shell Programming
- Review of UNIX Essentials
- Review of the vi editor
- Using the Bourne Shell
- Using the Korn Shell
