Plus Plus Pty Ltd

This course is for those who want to write Unix shell scripts, use more advanced Unix utilities and manipulate the contents of files with Unix.
It is also applicable to Linux, Solaris and other Unix variants.

Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• Understand advanced uses of redirection, pipes and filters
• Edit text files using standard editors
• Use grep and advanced regular expressions for sophisticated pattern matching
• Write shell scripts with variables, tests and loops
• Use the basics of other utilities such as sed, awk and perl

These skills will allow you to edit files, find data within files, manipulate the contents of files and automate procedures.

For people with Unix command line experience, who need to perform the above tasks.

Experience with the basics of the Unix operating system is required, up to the level of our Introduction to Unix course.
No experience with shell scripting is required.
No programming experience is necessary, although the Introduction to Programming course would be beneficial to those with no programming background.

• Overview
• Recap on the essentials
• Getting help
• Tips and tricks
• Editing files
• Simple edits
• ed
• vi and vim
• Other editors
• Redirection and pipes
• Redirection
• Pipes
• Standard filters
• Regular expressions
• Shell wildcards
• Simple regular expressions
• RE meta characters
• RE quantifiers and anchors
• RE Back references
• grep, egrep and fgrep
• Script basics
• Our first script
• Scope
• Escape Characters
• Variables
• Accessing command line arguments
• Escape Characters
• Program control structures
• Test
• Case construction
• Loops
• Best practice
• Writing functions
• Scope of Variables
• Exit Codes
• Libraries
• Leveraging with utilities
• Using awk
• Using sed
• Using perl

Introduction to Unix (1 day)
Introduction to Programming (1 day)
Introduction to Perl (2 days)