HP-UX Fundamentals Course Overview This Hewlett Packard HP-UX Operating System and Posix Shell Programming training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the HP-UX Operating System. The most commonly used commands are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced The course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing shell scripts. Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures. Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Who will the Course Benefit? There are no formal pre-requisites for the HP-UX Fundamentals course,although an understanding of and exposure to information technology is advantageous. Programmers,administrators and support personnel who need to understand the HP-UX Operating system,existing shellscripts,automate procedures and write their own utilities. Some programming experience may also prove advantageous.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
Requirements There are no formal pre-requisites for this HP-UX Fundamentals training course,although an understanding of and exposure to information technology and an understanding of operating systems is required.
COURSE CONTENT:
HP-UX Fundamentals Training Course Course Contents – DAY 1 Course Introduction • Administration and Course Materials • Course Structure and Agenda • Delegate and Trainer Introductions Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE HP-UX OPERATING SYSTEM • A brief history of UNIX / Linux • The UNIX / Linux kernel • The UNIX / Linux file system structure • File and directory management commands • Absolute vs Relative Pathnames • Further basic commands • Exercise: Navigating the file system Session 2: BASIC COMMANDS • Command line syntax • Basic file handling commands • Basic Directory handling commands • Filename wildcard characters • Using commands with logical AND and OR • Sequential command execution • Exercise: Manipulating files and directories Session 3: REDIRECTION AND PIPES • Input and Output redirection • Redirecting errors • Piping commands • Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities HP-UX Fundamentals Training Course Course Contents – DAY 2 Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi/Vim EDITOR • Overview of the vi/Vim editor • The language of vi • Undoing and Redoing changes • Input Mode and Last Line Mode • Further vi functions • Executing commands within vi / Vim • Customising the vi / Vim Environment • Getting Help • Exercises: Using the vi editor Session 5: SEARCHING AND REPLACING TEXT • Searching and replacing text using the vi/Vim editor • Using regular expressions (regex) • Using sed for search and replace • Searching for text with grep,egrep and fgrep • Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text Session 6: RECALLING AND EDITING COMMANDS • Overview • The bash shell • The korn shell • Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands Session 7: FILE PERMISSIONS AND ACCESS CONTROL • Users and user groups • File access permissions • Changing file attributes • Switching users and user groups • Linking files • Exercise: Setting and access permissions HP-UX Fundamentals Training Course Course Contents – DAY 3 Session 8: FILTERING AND FORMATTING TEXT • Overview • The paste command • The cut command • An introduction to awk • The nl command • Exercises: Filtering Text Session 9: PROCESSES • What is a process? • Monitoring processes • Killing processes • Background processes • Job Control • Grouping commands • Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes Session 10: THE USER ENVIRONMENT • Customising the .profile or .bash_profile • Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc • Exercise: Setting up an environment Session 11: MORE BASIC COMMANDS • The find command • Using xargs command • The locate command • The df command • The cut command • The sort command • Finding duplicate content • Number sequencing • Exercise: More Basic Commands HP-UX Fundamentals Training Course Course Contents – DAY 4 Session 12: UNIX COMMAND REVIEW • Basic Unix commands • General commands • File and directory handling commands • Filename generation characters and regular expressions (regex) • I/O Redirection features • Other commands Session 13: GETTING STARTED • What is a shell script? • Development guidelines • Creating and editing shell scripts • Naming and storing shell scripts • Executing shell scripts • Exercise: Write a simple shell script Session 14: USING VARIABLES • Environment variables • Local variables • Assigning values to variables • Assessing variable values • Using quotes • Delimiting variable names • echo control sequences • Exercise: Add variables to a script Session 15: INTEGER ARITHMETIC • Using the expr command • Using the (( )) notation • Exercise: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script Session 16: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA • The read command • Command line arguments • Exercise: Writing a generic shell script • Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script Session 17: CONDITIONAL EXECUTION • The if statement • The test command • Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts Session 18: ADDITIONAL KORN,BASH & POSIX SYNTAX • Other test notations • Default and substitute variables • Exit status codes • Exercise HP-UX Fundamentals Training Course Course Contents – DAY 5 Session 19: LOOP CONSTRUCTS • The while loop • The until loop • The for loop • The while true and until false loops • Loop control commands • Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts • Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a 'for' loop • Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the 'while' loop Session 20: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS • The case statement • Menu driven applications • Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system Session 21: FUNCTIONS • What is a function? • Syntax • Examples • Exercise: Add a function to a script Session 22: INTERRUPT HANDLING • Interrupt signals • Trapping interrupts • Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script Session 23: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES • The exec commands • The includes notation • More about loops • Arrays • Here Documents • Exercise: Create a here script
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
Course Objectives To provide the skills needed to work productively in an HP-UX environment to develop and customise shell programs.
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