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COURSE TYPE

Advanced

Course Number

434

Duration

3 Days
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Customise your working environment for supercharged productivity with KornShell (ksh) and BASH shell (bash) — powerful command-interpreting languages for Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS. In this Shell programming training course, you gain the skills to write reusable, robust shell scripts, extend your user environment, and automate complex administrative tasks.

You Will Learn How To

  • Write Bash and KornShell scripts for improved productivity
  • Integrate arrays, functions, pattern matching, I/O, branches, loops, and variables
  • Improve speed with multifile handling and string manipulations
  • Create and reuse function libraries

Important Course Information

  • Recommended Experience

    • User-level UNIX commands
    • Simple file editing with basic text, or GUI-based, editor
    • X Window System and basic UNIX networking

  • Software

    • This course uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Concepts taught are applicable to all Linux distributions

Course Outline

  • Introduction and Overview
  • Benefits of KornShell and Bash vs. other shells
  • Differences between bash, ksh88 and ksh93
  • Integrating scripts with external command-line tools
  • Bash and KornShell Scripting Fundamentals

Shell script elements

  • Commands and comments
  • Defining exit values

Conditional program execution

  • Applying if and case statements
  • Simplifying if logic with elif

Program loops and iteration

  • Conditional looping with while and until
  • Listing for loops

Testing files and directories

  • Analysing attributes
  • Checking file size and contents

Strings and patterns using [[ ]]

  • Comparing strings
  • Verifying the existence of a string
  • Pattern matching and special characters

Debugging

  • Redirecting standard error
  • set commands for debugging
  • Storing and Accessing Data

Positional parameters

  • Passing and accessing parameters
  • Manipulating parameters as groups

Shell variables

  • Defining environment and local variables
  • Specifying default values and error conditions

Arrays

  • Creating and indexing arrays
  • Processing array contents with special variables
  • Processing Data

Manipulating strings

  • Extracting substrings
  • Determining string length

Mathematics

  • Arithmetic for and while loops
  • Writing mathematical expressions: (( )), $(( )) and let
  • Modular Programming with Functions

Function basics

  • Functions vs. scripts
  • Parameters and variables

Creating a function library

  • Finding your library with PATH
  • Dot . and source commands
  • Interacting with the Outside World

Manipulating files and redirecting data

  • Scripting file and directory management
  • Unravelling the secrets of exec: opening and closing multiple files

Interacting with running processes

  • Handling errors
  • Processing external events
  • Handling and sending signals: trap and kill

Accessing network servers

  • Connecting to a network server
  • Exchanging data with a network server
  • Creating "Production Quality" Scripts

Ensuring environmental control

  • Checking and modifying environment variables
  • Using getopts to process command-line options

Handling user actions

  • Accepting command-line arguments
  • Employing select to create a menu interface
  • Processing keyboard input
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Tuition Fee — Standard: £1695  

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Course Tuition Fee Includes:

After-Course Instructor Coaching
When you return to work, you are entitled to schedule a free coaching session with your instructor for help and guidance as you apply your new skills.

After-Course Computing Sandbox
You'll be given remote access to a preconfigured virtual machine for you to redo your hands-on exercises, develop/test new code, and experiment with the same software used in your course.

Free Course Exam
You can take your Learning Tree course exam on the last day of your course or online any time after class.

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Training Hours

Standard class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Last day class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Free Course Exam – Last Day:
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest:
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

AFTERNOON START class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.


Last day class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.


Free Course Exam – Last Day:
8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.


Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest
9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

“My course provided me with the critical skills I need, and my performance improved immediately upon returning to work.”

- K. McPartlin, Communications Analyst
The Credit Network

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