HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Course Overview This Hewlett Packard HP-UX Posix Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of HP-UX tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into HP-UX shell scripts.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Who will the Course Benefit? Programmers,developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts and process text files using advanced text handling facilities. The HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools course assumes knowledge of the HP-UX Operating System to the level covered in the HP-UX Introduction course. Some shell programming experience to the level covered in HP-UX Shell Programming is also necessary.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
Requirements The HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools course assumes knowledge of the HP-UX Operating System to the level covered in the HP-UX Introduction course. Knowledge of HP-UX Shell Programming to the level covered on the HP-UX Shell Programming course is also a requirement. Alternatively,relevant experience of UNIX or Linux servers is required.
COURSE CONTENT:
HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course Course Contents – DAY 1 Course Introduction • Administration and Course Materials • Course Structure and Agenda • Delegate and Trainer Introductions Session 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 files with the cmp command • Compare and format files with pr • Compare files with the comm command • Compare files with the diff and sdiff commands • Compare large files with the bdiff command • Exercises: Identifying file differences Session 4: SPLITTING FILES • The fold command • Split files using context and content rules • Exercises: Splitting files HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course Course Contents – DAY 2 Session 5: IDENTIFYING AND TRANSLATING CHARACTERS • od – octal dump • Use cat to display non-printing characters • View and format files with nl • 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 • Searching with grep • Metacharacters,positional characters and quantifiers • Extended regular expressions • POSIX character classes • PERL 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 • Write output to temporary files • 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 Session 9: AWK OPERATORS • AWK AND,OR and range operators • AWK arithmetic operations • AWK output • Formatting output with printf • Exercises: Create awk scripts to extract selected data from a file and generate reports HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course Course Contents – DAY 3 Session 10: 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 11: 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 12: AWK ARRAYS • AWK associative arrays • Multi-dimensional arrays • Exercises: Create AWK associative arrays to process text files and generate reports Session 13: 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 OBJECTIVE:
Course Objectives To provide the knowledge and skills to make effective use of a wide range of standard HP-UX programming and development tools.
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